With legos and surfaces the labels are always drawn in an automatic way. They are adjusted according to the view angles. You can change the distance to the axis and the labels’ size.
optionsLabel “v” does not apply. Its is, may be, something which can be done in the future.
Indeed, it would be nice if you could add to your todo list this item. Vertical of course doesn’t mean anything in a 3d view that you can rotate, but what I implied when using this option was to have the titles perpendicular to the axis.