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States elect their governors by their own rules. Thirty-seven states already have some form of term limits, some lifetime limits, others sequential limitis. There is no Constitutional mechanism to impose gubernatorial terms limits.
long tenures build expertise and deep ties to the legislature, but they also build entrenched power and stale ideas. which trade-off actually scares you more?