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Yes, to echo what everyone seems to be saying, I started really floppy and the longer I play, the thicker and stiffer I like my picks. I go bigger and sometimes softer for strumming, stiffer and smaller for lead stuff. I also feel day-to-day changes. Some days, it’s harder to relax my picking arm and I need to go more flexible with the pick. Sometimes if I’m not getting a riff, switching picks will reset my muscle memory and I can break out of a mistake I keep repeating. Picks are cheap enough that it’s easy to experiment. Don’t neglect playing without one sometimes too! Sometimes I’ll use a stiffer pick to make myself relax if I’m too tight, and sometimes if my strumming feels timid I’ll go floppier to force myself to be more aggressive. It’s the cheapest, easiest thing you can change to vary tone and feel, so use that to your advantage. My current fave overall are the golden gate rainbow (clown vomit) rounded triangle picks. Pretty stiff but not too sharp, easy to hold, and a good in between size for both strums and individual strings. I always have one in the watch pocket of my pants