For LC connectors, the two cables are held with a plastic clip, you can remove that to make it fit through smaller holes. After that it's much thinner and nicer to work with than Cat7.
The fiberglass rods provide excellent crush and cut resistance, as well as bend radius control.
I don't think I'll ever do a fiber install again. If it has already been run to the house, great, but otherwise, I'd rather not.
We had fiber installed at our house and our derpy dog chewed up the line twice before they were able to bury it. Was a good time indeed and thankfully AT&T didn't charge us anything to come out and fix it each time.
They only ended up burying it a few inches deep, i was surprised and thought it would be deeper.
What surprised me the most is one of the techs telling me that ants are one of the most common threats to fiber lines outside of them accidently being severed by construction crews digging.
Be careful doing that. There are LC connectors that are not capable of being split. (I know this because I attempted to split one of this type and damaged a fiber assembly at.)
The vast majority of LC connectors I've worked with can be split but some cannot.