Yes its just like the vinyl versus CD, MP3 or now steaming. For some vinyl is the only way they will listen to music.
Quite aside from that concern, which is valid and one of the reasons I shoot film (besides being more deliberate about the process than digital), the actual resolution of film is still higher. Most good color film can resolve about 100-110 pixels per mm, so about 8-12 MP for 35mm film … not that much, but 6x7 medium format comes out to 42-50 MP, which is starting to get impressive, but 4x5 sheet film is north of 120 megapixels, and 8x10 above 250 megapixels of resolving power, with fine grained black and white film easily quadrupling that.
And because the optics for larger formats than digital are available in are better than for smaller cameras, even very old optics, and tilts and shifts are more available, for certain applications such as landscape, architecture, and high resolution product photography, film still handily outperforms digital and is still used for that purpose today. Digital is only now starting to seriously displace 120 format film, and it's going to be a long time before large format is really challenged.
Which is why the National Park Service a few years ago hired an 8x10 black and white film photographer for their permanent staff. And yes, that's literally Ansel Adams' old position.
Interestingly, consumer 35mm film is also seeing an uptick in sales in the last 3 years according to Ilford and Kodak Alaris, mostly from those under 35 years old. They've even re-introduced Ektachrome slide film, are looking into re-introducing Kodachrome (this time as E-6 process), and brought back a bunch of Super8 stocks, and started sending some films back into the US and European market that were until recently only available as cheap film to the far east. Some psychologists are postulating that it's backlash against everything being on the internet, which is possible I suppose, but I'm 39 and that's not why I use it.
One other film resurgence is in motion picture, especially larger formats. Dunkirk was shot on 70mm lazy 16 IMAX film, which pushes roughly 24k of resolution, and the Hateful Eight on 70mm was shot on … 70mm, though that was pulldown film. Certain depth of field effects are only available with really large image capture areas. Even the recent HBO/Sky miniseries Chernobyl ran their digital through a film simulation (of Kodak VISION3 500T) to give it a documentary look - it's very obvious if you know what to look for.
