Once elections are fixed (made fair) term limits could be bad - it's possible that good people will need longer than a fixed term to raise the next generation, or finish projects of importance, and with free elections why force them out? any corruption could be voted out in secure elections so that is less of a worry. The problem has not been term limits but fraudulent voting keeping people in even when they are terrible.
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None of what you said makes the argument against term limits.
Career politicians can win even in "fair" elections, because it's never going to be fair. Incumbent advantage will never disappear, but at least you can force it to move forward at some point.
There is more than one problem with the legal process, and fixing one does not negate the others.
As long as there are term limits on the Presidency, there should be term limits on the people who pushed to shackle the Presidency to those limits.