take a look at this other one:
 bitcoin-cli -netinfo
Bitcoin Core client v28.1.0 - server xxxxx/Satoshi:28.1.0/

        onion     i2p     npr   total   block
in         15      12       1      28
out         8       2       0      10       2
total      23      14       1      38


88b0c423eb

as I said, connected doesn't mean are also downloading blocks. It could be very easily just pinging your node and waiting for response until one of the leechers are getting kicked out.

Also you will have to "announce" your node with
```
externalip=yourP2pTorHiddenService.onion or clearnet IP
listen=1
```

that's not reality, you can have much more than 8, as I just showed I am connect to 18 and it's a very bad internet connection lol