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Smaller gauge strings on the electric make it easier to pick sometimes. I’m not bad on an electric guitar and just a little better than mediocre on the acoustic guitar. I like the portability of the acoustic instrument and after many hours of practice I can get nuances out of the Acoustic guitar that I like the tone of better than that electric picking.
I get much more enjoyment out of acoustic accomplishments. You can get a good set up done on your acoustic guitar. Drop the strings down to a more comfortable size, though you do lose a degree of tone. I use 12/57 or 12.5/53 strings on my acoustic instruments. But started at 10/53 ‘s and worked up to the 12’s every other string change to reach what works for me. To avoid a lot of finger tip soreness every time I increased string gauge I would tune down to the tuning I describe below, for a week or two and then increased the pitch a half a tone at a time until I was picking on “normal” tuning of the larger gauge string set.
If you find your current guitar string choice hard to play just lower all of the strings down a full tone, treble to bass string tones D, A, F, C, G, D. This makes the strings easier to hold down. Or find a model that suits you better in all of the after holiday sales. If you are playing with others just capo on the 2nd fret to return to regular tuning. Acoustic seem much more personal so, for me, it is a personal preference choice.