Plotly Heatmap removes duplicate x-labels. How can I allow duplicate x-labels?

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Using plolty version 5.11.0, and the below code:

import plotly.graph_objects as go
import numpy as np

labels = ["a", "a", "b", "b", "j", "a", "b"]
z = np.arange(len(labels)).reshape(1, len(labels))
fig = go.Figure()
fig.add_trace(go.Heatmap(
    z=z,
    x = labels,
    text=z,
    texttemplate="%{text}",
))

…produces a graph w/ only “a”, “b”, “j” labels, removing the duplicate labels. It also shifts the values, such that “b” is now associated w/ value “1” when it should be “2”. This happens w/o an error or warning about duplicates or mentioning that the data dimensions have been reduced.

Is there a way to allow non-unique labels in the x-axis?