I see the utility, but at the same time think this function simultaneously has too many kwargs and not enough -- lots of details related to the colormap and camera motion are hardcoded. This is great for quickly getting a picture rendered, but not so great for tweaking. Unfortunately, since it immediately renders to a file and returns nothing, render_cube_in_yt can't be used as a starting point that is then customized.

Again, not arguing against inclusion, just advocating that future effort in this direction be towards a more composable set of wrapper functions in a dedicated radio-tools package or yt itself.