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[Bug]: AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'add_text' #22093

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Bug summary

Previously, I had been using ax.texts.append(annotation) to control mouseover interaction (appearance of texts) - that seemed to work in 3.4.3, in 3.5.1 it is broken.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib
print(matplotlib.__version__)
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
tant = ax.annotate("", xy=(0,0), xytext=(2,2),textcoords="offset points", bbox=dict(boxstyle="round", fc="w"), zorder=10)
print(ax.texts)
ax.texts.append(tant)
print(ax.texts)

Actual outcome

Python 3.8.10 (default, Nov 26 2021, 20:14:08) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import matplotlib
>>> print(matplotlib.__version__)
3.5.1
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> fig, ax = plt.subplots()
>>> tant = ax.annotate("", xy=(0,0), xytext=(2,2),textcoords="offset points", bbox=dict(boxstyle="round", fc="w"), zorder=10)
>>> ax.texts
<Axes.ArtistList of 1 texts>
>>> ax.texts.append(tant)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/_collections_abc.py", line 962, in append
    self.insert(len(self), value)
  File "~/venv_mpl/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_base.py", line 1392, in insert
    getattr(self._axes, self._add_name)(item)
AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'add_text'

Expected outcome

From a jupyter notebook with matplotlib 3.4.1, output is:

3.4.3
[Text(2, 2, '')]
[Text(2, 2, ''), Text(2, 2, '')]

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Ubuntu 20.05

Matplotlib Version

3.5.1

Matplotlib Backend

TkAgg, module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline

Python version

3.8.10

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