Domesticate NULL
aesthetic labels
#6644
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This PR aims to fix #6616.
Briefly, whenever a (default) label is derived from a
NULL
aesthetic, we set thefallback = TRUE
attribute. This allows labels derived from other layers to overrule that label.Reprex from the issue, notice that we have
cty
andhwy
labels instead ofx
/y
labels.Created on 2025-09-24 with reprex v2.1.1