Often the conversion step and interpretation steps are not separable, because several readings are allowed for the same Voynichese glyph, or spaces can be moved, or some redundant parts can be optionally ignored, if it helps interpret the result. This is all plausible to some extent, I'm not criticizing. The method consists in cherry-picking the best possible conversion among many.
Ideally there should be a way to assess the interpretation step by comparing translations made by different people. But several experts in some language can make nearly the same translation by using the same knowledge, the same dictionaries, and then there is often a reasonable way of interpreting a word salad that will result in nearly the same translation by several people (one that makes some sense) even if it is highly subjective. So it's possible to say "all linguists agree with my interpretation" in the end. Conversely differences in interpretations are perfectly normal for some ancient languages, even among experts.
Ideally there should be a way to assess the interpretation step by comparing translations made by different people. But several experts in some language can make nearly the same translation by using the same knowledge, the same dictionaries, and then there is often a reasonable way of interpreting a word salad that will result in nearly the same translation by several people (one that makes some sense) even if it is highly subjective. So it's possible to say "all linguists agree with my interpretation" in the end. Conversely differences in interpretations are perfectly normal for some ancient languages, even among experts.
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