Why phone screens aren’t made of plastic or another transparent, hard-to-break material?

Question

My issue is with glass smashing into pieces under the smallest falls

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Answer 1

I remember Motorola did this with the ShatterShield for a few models. Plastic screen that was impossible to shatter. All the ytubers at the time focused on how easy it was to scratch even though a simple film (PET) screen protector made this more ideal than gorilla glass. It didn’t seem to take off outside the Motorola force line of phones unfortunately.