"Referendums are bad"
Why?
"Tyranny of Majority Potential, Insurgent Minority Pulling One Over Potential"
Exceeding the potential of legislatures doing that even more capably with worse outcomes and it being an explicit irremovable part of the framework?
"But you get to vote directly on who is in those legislatures"
In a ludicrously less straightforward way to get majoritarian popular policy than a referendum.
"Yes, to prevent bad outcomes from happening"
More bad than ALL OF THIS?