I mean, Washington wanted 2 terms to be the norm.
He didn’t, that’s just a whitewashed version we tell ourselves.
He just didn’t want the President to be viewed as a monarch or a lifetime appointment. He turned down a third term because he feared he would die in office and the public would believe that’s the norm.
Everyone knows you just keep guessing until you get it right.
Don’t worry about how janky or slow it makes the UI. That’s basically a requirement for the modern browser.