For a few years I carried two primes everywhere, a 35mm and an 85mm on the a7III. Picking which one to bring usually settled the question of what kind of shots I was going for before I left the house. On days when I couldn't decide, I'd take both and spend half the shoot switching between them, which wasn't efficient but at least forced me to think about what I was actually after.
When my wife gave me the Tamron 28-75, the first thing I noticed was how much easier the whole thing felt. I could show up, find a frame, adjust the focal length, and shoot. The discipline of the primes gave way to flexibility, and for a while that felt like an upgrade.
It took a few weeks to see what the extra flexibility had changed. Without having to decide anything in advance, I was showing up and reacting to whatever was in front of me, and the photos reflected that: technically fine, no particular point of view.
The zoom didn't fix itself, but my approach to it did. I started treating it the way I used to treat picking a prime: before I left, I'd think about what I was photographing, what focal length that actually called for, and more or less commit to it. The ring became something I adjusted deliberately rather than continuously.
Now I shoot faster because I'm not stopping to swap glass, while the decisions still happen earlier in the process, before the camera is even out of the bag.