Yup. What’s going to keep it from becoming standard procedure is the fact that entrenched pols will have to do the resigning. Of course, that can be undone also by merely running again in the next election. The LIVs have their backs.
What should happen, is have the recall anyway, and let the voters choose the replacement. But I’m betting the state won’t allow that, and will deem the recall ballot moot. This will establish a new underhanded Rat tactic, along with the fleebagging they’ve done from other states to prevent quorums from being formed.
And like I said, they could probably just resign two of them and appoint them to each other’s seats. What needs to happen is an initiative that makes it pointless, IOW, it’s not a recall drive but a special election drive. If you get enough signatures to force a new election for that particular seat, it will do them no good to rearrange the namecards. The election still takes place.