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1 every 2 years.
How do we handle deaths?
Edit: seems the median tenure is currently just over 15 years. Mode may well be 5 years.
If it’s Thomas or Alito, we handle it by laughing and arrest everyone who bribed them.
Why wait 'til they die?
also early retirements, stonewalling via the senate as with Merrick Garland… guaranteed gaming the system with those would become much more common. So yeah it’s much much more complicated than just saying one every two years.
Most likely you'd have to allow the sitting president to appoint an acting justice to serve out the remainder of that justice's term. Yeah we'd still have the problem of RBG dying under Trump and giving us a 6-3 conservative majority, but if she only had a few years left on her term when she died the damage would at least be limited.
As for what McConnell did to Garland, having term endings scheduled would make that a lot harder. If their terms are staggered such that they always end 1 year and 3 years into each president's term it destroys the argument that it's too close to an election and the people should get to decide who makes the appointment. They'd be forced to outright deny the nominee and let the president try again. That's much harder to maintain.
By betting on who's out in Vegas.
Since I only just now saw this, the idea I had was to reinstate the most recently retired justice as the most fair solution I could think of.