For example, switching to the Earth revolving around the Sun from the Sun revolving around the Earth improved modeling of the solar system. Switching from assuming differences in the speed of light depending on the direction of light through the luminiferous ether to no preferred direction led to special relativity. On the idea of inverting a conceptual reference frame as a heuristic there is:
Preprint Inverting conceptual reference frames
Do you have other examples of how changing the conceptual setting led to solution of a problem in physics?
Here is a quote of Sir William Lawrence Bragg that appears at the front of a book by Jacob Schwichtenberg called No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics : “The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
On the origin and accuracy of the Lawrence Bragg quote above, I added this article on ResearchGate, a few days after posting my July 15, 2019 reply:
Preprint Sir Lawrence Bragg's quote on the essence of science