NIC Bonding instead of deprecated teaming

Rocky Linux General
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Since teaming is going to be deprecated, Red hat suggested to use bonding instead, however bonding in the past had the limitation of being able to bond two network cards only, which was not the case for teaming (you could add for example add 4 NICs to team and get the max throughput; is this still the case for bonding? I think since it is going to replace teaming, it should not, however I could not find any document or source about it.

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How does that limitation show in practice?

# ip -s li | grep -A 5 "master bond0" | sed "s/00:..:..:..:..:../XXXX/g"
3: ens7f1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether XXXX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr XXXX
    RX:    bytes   packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
    433420537784 405488069      0       1       0 1513476 
    TX:    bytes   packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
         5058085     41794      0       0       0       0 
--
7: ens6f1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether XXXX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr XXXX
    RX:     bytes    packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
     434266394957  406818151      0       1       0 1876096 
    TX:     bytes    packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
    1669210194383 1164062836      0       0       0       0 
--
9: ens5f1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether XXXX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr XXXX
    RX:    bytes   packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
    450294627579 559081953      0       1       0 1644275 
    TX:    bytes   packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
         5219467     46664      0       0       0       0 
--
11: enp8s0f1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether XXXX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX:    bytes   packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
    434527789211 406836385      0       0       0 1654723 
    TX:    bytes   packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
     22916959889 306034610      0       0       0       0