I’d bet there’s a lot of “import numpy, scipy, matplotlib” types of people out there - I’m one of them. From what I’m seeing SciML is the Julia equivalent of Scipy, at least from a documentation standpoint, and does a pretty good job of consolidating a bunch of packages into one place where they can be easily discoverable.
I’m not aware of an equivalent document for the plotting ecosystem. Matplotlib is the standard in Python so it doesn’t have this issue. Plots seems to be the de facto default plotting package, Makie seems to be up and coming for that position, at least from what can be gauged from the SciML docs, and it would be nice to have all other plotting packages in one document to aid in discoverability. I get why Julia Base can’t endorse Plots in its manual, but it should still be clear enough to a beginner that Plots is the go-to package (or maybe Makie). Maybe the plotting section in the SciML docs can be expanded for this purpose, but I don’t know if it’s the ideal location for it.