Kafka Streams not allowed to change the number of input topic partitions

Hi, I came across the links below that indicates it's not simple to increase partitions in an input topic afterwards. Is this still true in the current kafka version 2.3.1 and soon to be available 2.4? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42329387/failed-to-rebalance-error-in-kafka-streams-with-

kafka streams application design on state stores

ble inputs. ChienHsing Wu