A workaround is to just have both jcenter() and mavenCentral() in the build.gradle for now. Of course not ideal but will be OK for another 3 months till jcenter() will be shut down.
I've tried to create my local version of figlib but that threw a lot of errors up.
I guess if this is not fixed by the end of the year androidplot will be dead. Any sustainable solutions to this problem?