Chart grows forever when maintainAspectRatio is false
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Description
### Expected behavior
I can turn `maintainAspectRatio` off and the chart doesn't start growing forever in the page. There should be a limit from Chart.js and the client can then add other limits (in the form of height/max-height).
### Current behavior
Setting `maintainAspectRatio` to false makes the chart grow forever in the page.
I managed to stop it from growing by setting a max-height on a wrapper element.
Setting a max-height on the canvas didn't stop the growing.
This seems to happen when the canvas has sibling elements, which I need in my project.
In this very similar issue https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/issues/5805 [closed], someone suggested to remove the sibling elements: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/issues/5805#issuecomment-893961074. But this causes another bug related to responsiveness, this one: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/issues/11005
Relevant comment with explanation: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/issues/11005#issuecomment-1433478026
### Reproducible sample
https://codepen.io/teodorachiosa/pen/YzbbGLN
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### Optional extra steps/info to reproduce
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### Possible solution
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### Context
Reproduction link for `maintainAspectRatio` set to false and no max height set:
https://codepen.io/teodorachiosa/pen/YzbbGLN
Link for `maintainAspectRatio` set to false and max height set on the wrapper element of the canvas:
https://codepen.io/teodorachiosa/pen/XWwQPqW
The workaround I'll be using for now will be setting a max height on the wrapper, but this behavior for `maintainAspectRatio` seems pretty broken to me out of the box.
Edit: Even after setting the max height, the chart still grows a bit on mouse hover and the legend is cut off:
Example from a project:

### chart.js version
4.4.2
Also tested with 4.4.3
### Browser name and version
Chrome 125.0.6422.147
### Link to your project
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