This way better solution using the `(A)` flag was given to me in the
zsh-users mailing list back in 2022 but I forgot to apply it.
See zshexpn(1):
> Convert the substitution into an array expression, even if it
> otherwise would be scalar.
Thanks Mikael!
Link: https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2022/msg00668.html