Yup. I don’t know why the framers of the Constitution got rid of term limits in the first place. I’d also suggest that 6 years is too long of a term.
Because Senators are meant to be a psudo-aristocracy to keep the rabble of the house in check. The whole purpose and design of the Senate is to have a slow, deliberative body divorced from the scrambling to-and-fro that defines a politician chasing public opinion.
Then the 17th amendment was passed, and Senators were turned into 6-year Representatives. Pandering opinion chasers, unable to rise above politics and fill their role as a check on rapid, ill-advised policy changes to meet the demands-du-jour of a largely uneducated electorate. The 17th eviscerated states rights while it was at it, giving state policy makers no real voice in federal policy.
The founders would recognize neither the shape nor the value of the Senate in its current form. If they were alive, they would campaign tirelessly for the repeal of the 17th amendment, or for a total restructuring of the legislative branch. The Federalist Papers make clear the founders considered our legislative system to hinge on a very specific bicameral dynamic which no longer exists. It must be restored, or a new system which allows us to exercise our unhealthy fetish for voting on anything and everything, regardless of qualification or interest, in a less damaging way.