The way I understand it, the problem is what happens when someone DOES fall. So the oil isn't super-contagious, it doesn't compleat or terraform in a reliable way. It kinda spreads some, and those who get it inside them in a bad way might get sick, and those who get sick might die or compleat. Barin and Azure basically cover it; Mirrodin was built to fail.
The problem is less that Phyrexia is impossibly contagious and more that it is impossibly relentless. Dominaria, which went through a lot of hell, has learned to contain the problem, has specialized tools for combating the problem, and despite concerted efforts can't eradicate it. What about J. Random Plane, someplace that doesn't know the danger that Phyrexia ultimately represents? The oil on its own is a fairly low threat to any given individual, but once higher forms emerge (or, more likely, somebody does hit the low low chance of being compleated or at least turned into an insane cultist by the oil coursing through their body), the spread then has an advocate. If that's even needed. Look at
Steady Progress and
Instill Infection. That's the danger; ignorance and curiosity alike advance Phyrexia's position in early phases. Sooner or later the track progresses, and the farther it goes the faster it goes and the harder it is to beat back to a previous state. Phyrexia doesn't grow from a drop of oil overnight, but it can grow or grow back from a drop of oil. In a sense, Dominaria is the best case scenario: jumping on it in early stages for the rest of time, because it's going to be extremely hard to actually destroy all viable contagion.