The on-site experience of an online store depends on how each element is placed and designed. Even a small link or a dropdown can irritate a visitor and leave the store.
Hence, it is important for the Magento 2 store owners to work on minute details. As a part of it, here’s the programmatic solution to change toolbar limiter dropdown to links in Magento 2.
By default, it looks something like this:

And if you want to change it to this:

use the below solution:
Method to Change Toolbar Limiter Dropdown to Links in Magento 2:
Override limiter.phtml from vendor/magento/Module_Catalog/templates/product/list/toolbar/ to app/design/frontend/theme/child_theme/Magento_Catalog/templates/product/list/toolbar/limiter.phtml and replace the below code:
<select id="limiter" data-role="limiter" class="limiter-options"> <?php foreach ($block->getAvailableLimit() as $_key => $_limit): ?> <option value="<?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $_key ?>"<?php if ($block->isLimitCurrent($_key)): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif ?>> <?php /* @escapeNotVerified */ echo $_limit ?> </option> <?php endforeach; ?> </select>
with
<?php foreach ($block->getAvailableLimit() as $_key => $_limit): ?> <a data-role="limiter" href="#" data-value="<?php echo $_key ?>" <?php if ($block->isLimitCurrent($_key)): ?> class="selected" <?php endif ?>> <?php echo $_limit ?> </a> <?php endforeach; ?>
That’s it.