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Vinyl = Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)

You can absolutely game with resin pieces. I do all of the time. But you can't handle them as roughly as you might handle a board game token.

You really shouldn't put a bunch of cleaned, assembled, and painted resin miniatures loose into a baggie or a box and expect them to come out of it pristine. But that goes for metal miniatures as well.

Resin tends to be hard but brittle, though it doesn't mean that resin miniatures are 'fragile'. They are simply more fragile (typically) than the average pewter or PVC miniature.

Resin is a labor intensive casting process for miniatures that allows for deeper undercuts and which tends to produce higher fidelity castings. As such, the material tends to be used by boutique miniatures companies producing finely detailed miniatures. Finer detail can mean smaller/thinner pieces, which means more fragile when it comes to any material.

I'll pick up finished resin miniatures by the handful when I am gaming with them, but I don't let my 4 y/o handle them.

I typically let my 4 y/o handle most metal miniatures under reasonably careful supervision (depending on how much I care about the miniatures).

When I am playing Zombicide, my 4 y/o gets to play with the survivors and zombies that aren't on the board. And I let him pretty much do what he pleases with them.