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Most of engineering involves coming up with compromises. They absolutely could come up with a design that would be very hard to break, but chances are you wouldn't be able to hold it up for very long in your hands. Stopping a flat structure from twisting is very difficult. You pretty much have to add bracing in the third dimension, making it thicker. Better would be to get the displays made from flexible plastic, and then be able to use cases that can be thin and flimsy, and therefor light and easy to hold. As far as the current glass displays go, I think the cases they have designed are very good at offering both protection and useability, but they can't be perfect at both things.
P.S. Having some looseness between the display and case is probably a good thing. It allows the case to flex a bit without transferring the stress immediately to the display.
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