Well, I suppose it's inconvenient, but its not really fragile compared to the others. It's actually the most durable, longest-lasting format ever invented. Celluloid preserves for generations and generations, depending on the type, I mean we have original technicolor film from the 1930s still in remarkable shape. Optical disks will rot in ten years, and most forms of tape will be severely deteriorated after twenty. Star Wars was shot on a very unstable film stock, but that's an exceptional circumstance in the format's history due to laziness/cheapness at the time of manufacture. And even then, the information is still there, you just have to play around with it in post to get the colors to read correctly, and it will continue to uphold such quality for another ten years at least. At about a fifty year lifespan for Eastman color film and at seventy and counting for Technicolor film, the format is a godsend.