This is a follow-up to #20826, which makes the exceptions from clearing more explicit.

While being a bit more verbose, this makes it more clear what is going on. Also I think having proper _reset_*_tick_kw methods will make patching the 3D default tick direction for #22517 (comment) easy. Something along the lines (to be tested):

# in axis3d.py
class Axis(...):

    def reset_major_tick_kw(keep_tick_and_label_visibility=False)
        super().reset_major_tick_kw(keep_tick_and_label_visibility)
        self._major_tick_kw['tickdir'] = 'inout'

The test introduced in #20826 should verify that this solution is equivalent and does not break something.