Is the Voynich illegible?

[pfeaster]

I wonder whether, even if we could hypothetically understand the inner logic of Voynichese, it would be that easy to read. Even knowing and understanding the language/cipher of Voynichese one would still be left with the same questions as to whether a character is an "a" or an "o". It is certainly true that if one understood the underlying "language" it should, I would think, make it much easier to work out what the intended characters were in a given instance. Nevertheless it might still be difficult to read even one knew the fundamental system of Voynichese.

If we understood the logic of Voynichese, it's also possible that the question of whether a glyph is [a] or [o], or [s] or [r], etc., would turn out not to be meaningful as such.  In this snippet from f7r, I sense somehow that asking whether the second glyph in the top and bottom vord is [a] in each case, and whether the last glyph in the bottom word is [s] or [r], might take us in the wrong direction. 
 
Rather, it looks as though the second glyph is closed off in each case with the first in a sequence of four mutually similar strokes, concluding with the same kind of flourish, producing two vords that are identical except for the shape of the repeated "hatchmark" stroke: think [o(////)] versus [o(\\\\)].  If Voynichese were meant to be parsed according to some logic like that, the "ambiguities" that frustrate EVA transcription efforts could be things of our own creation.  Maybe Voynichese is *easy* to parse on its own terms, whatever they are.