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As much as I love my 28-200mm, the 28mm is pretty annoying for a general walk around lens, I basically see it as my lightweight 70-200mm landscape lens which is what I originally bought it as, and it's absolutely brilliant in this regard. Not to say it isn't a great all purpose lens because it is, but the 28mm is honestly a bit frustrating. It is a super fun walk around lens though...

On the note of the 20-70mm f4. I think it would be amazing 90% of the time as a do it all but for indoor, compressed delicate shots where you want as much background blur as possible it may leave me wondering a little. So the other side is the 24-70mm f2.8 which does come to the rescue for what I've just mentioned. I think these two things are the trade off for me so it comes down to which one was more important, I ended up going with a 24-70mm mainly because I've always had a 16-35mm and now especially with the PZ being much smaller than my GM was it is pretty much always with me anyway.

My advice is to figure out if you will really build a system up or you want to keep your setup minimal. If you are going to get a 16-35mm at some point I'd definitely be going in the direction of a 24-70mm f2.8 right now. But if you aren't going to grab a 16-35mm then the 20-70mm is definitely the go I think, because the option of being able to go wider than 24mm is non negotiable in my world. My 16-35mm is my most used lens overall, I have times where when I go out shooting I specifically keep it off the camera to challenge myself, because once it gets changed on it will not come off again for the rest of that outing, I love it dearly.