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Personally I enjoy the mystery of taking a photo and waiting to see how it turned out, there is a charm to film photography that isn't captured by digital for me. Getting photos developed is equally exciting, and having the physical copies to hand out or place in an album is nice. It's a dying art, but being held together by enthusiasts.

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For me it was the opposite - my photography improved greatly once I didn't have a huge delay between taking the shot and seeing the result. Physical copies are still easy to do too.

P.S. forgot to mention that not paying for film or processing has left me a lot more free to practice. I can take as many pictures in an afternoon as I used to take in a year with film.

To me the greatest magic in the film world is placing (in darkness) a nondescript grey sheet into a tank, flushing a few chemicals through the tank, and pulling out a full color transparent positive image (E6 slide processing). Technically I understand how most of it happens, but seeing a positive in a large size like large format sheets or medium format rolls is an amazing experience. Even if I don't have a slide projector to shot them, a loupe on a light table is enough.

(While I shoot negative much more often, it doesn't have the same visceral impact as positives.)

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