No you don’t. Just toss away everything in the article except for repealing the 17th would make our country great again.
The Seventeenth turned the Senate into a Politburo, where states had to lobby to grab back the power and representation that was snatched from them—and even worse, left them competing with foreign lobbies. It was a bad idea with no purpose other than the centralization of power and taking away power from the states.