Anchoring text to middle of arrow

So I’m plotting a ton of diagrams with arrows, using connection patch because I’m crossing Axes, and wondering if there’s a way to position the text inside/inline with the arrow so that I can rescale the image without having to reposition everything:
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The arrow demo more or less hard codes everything.

So my best guess is I can grab the path from the patch and compute slopes and the like, but is there anything already implemented that I’m overlooking?