The US political apparatus has a lot of unwritten standards that are followed out of tradition. While people might vehemently disapprove of how Trump has pushed or blown past those limits, doing the same thing to achieve accountability might set a new lower bar for those traditions, rather than restoring them.

I don't think we want to end up with 57 supreme court justices at the end of this, and a Korean-style tradition of the presidency-to-prison pipeline.

I think it is probably better to have a system that can restore/maintain a socio-political focus on professionalism.

It's much better than the South American alternative of throwing the former president in prison every single time the party switches.

Leaders do a lot of things and laws are complicated, lawfare is stupidly easy.