Autoscaling is not applied (anymore) when a plot command is executed,
but at draw time (or when explicitly calling autoscale_view()).

(Re: get_autoscale_on: I usually prefer the "Return whether..." wording,
but here it would make unclear what happens if only some axes are
autoscaled.)

PR Summary

PR Checklist

• Has pytest style unit tests (and pytest passes).
• Is Flake 8 compliant (run flake8 on changed files to check).
• New features are documented, with examples if plot related.
• Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant (the docs should build without error).
• Conforms to Matplotlib style conventions (install flake8-docstrings and run flake8 --docstring-convention=all).
• New features have an entry in doc/users/next_whats_new/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).
• API changes documented in doc/api/next_api_changes/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).