No text, but a visual code

[Koen G]

I have sometimes thought that if there were no script in the VM, only images, this book would have been understood long ago.

I agree that more attention from trained art historians is necessary, but I don't think it's true that the script distracts from the study of the text. 

Take as an example Alain Touwaide and the plant images in the Voynich. He is an absolute authority on herbal manuscripts, and we do know that he spent a lot of time studying the VM. Not so long ago (I think it was during covid lockdown?), he even shared that he was studying the large plants again. Yet despite his efforts, and those of many others, both qualified specialists and amateurs, and even including sincere perseverance by Voynich's widow and her entourage, no solution has been found. I even suspect that there is not a single herbal manuscript that has received so much attention from humanity as a whole.

You say: the images can be understood, if only more qualified people would look at them.
But I think the opposite is true: many qualified people have looked at the images (probably many more than we know about, this is one of the most famous manuscripts in the world), but the images are a difficult challenge and most aren't willing to risk their reputation.