Ideas for Moving Voynich Research Forward

[Scarecrow]

I wonder if we have entered a new stage in the field, where publications will be focused around more serious events like the Malta conference. In that case, we will see longer intervals between publications, but the overall quality should go up.

I hope you are right as the Malta conference was of excellent quality with new (at least for me) ideas. Possibly and hopefully some of those ideas have created new line of research that just takes time to complete.

In my opinion, and I am just a fellow traveller not a researcher so my opinion is just that, that the VMS research is in kind of standstill.

The statistical and computational techniques have brought us tons of results but much without conclusions, interpretations or explanations - what they really mean. More like mixed results, contradictions, uncertainity.
I see Julians heroic computational attacks and fight agains VMS, but VMS seems to be Julian's windmill - resilient and unwavering. Tons of results we cannot comprehend nor explain.
I see lot of others doing the same, entropies, fuzzy, ngrams, homophonic, edit distances, genetic algorithms, great visualizations of different properties of vords/glyphs and their positions, conjectures; LAAFU, CoreCrustMantle, wheels, autocopy.
We will see "AI's" take on VMS soon, I believe. I read Emma's fight with grammar and text analysis, I get the grove words and the rest. I respect all you of what you have done and are doing and in no way am I trying to deprecate your work. No. I praise it.
Not to mention the glyphs and the graphics. That is still another story where this time botanists face their windmills.

But in my mind, after all read and sometimes even understand, there is this question: Why doesn't all this tons of trying, dissecting, calculating, analysing, visualizing - lead to somewhere?
Is there something wrong in the approach or why all this information and understanding produced doesn't seem to lead anywhere. In 40 years we have little on anything that look like facts, invariants and rules (BNF of VMS would be nice) but are based on great assumptions. What is it in VMS that defies statistical and computational analysis so badly, among other things. It is a samall sized binded collection of parchment folios that commonly is called a book and commonly in a book you will find writing, information. Still that little device called book defies everything.  

I have no idea what another approach or novel way to look into the VMS would be or look like, and possibly I am wrong with this. I have my idea of what VMS is and how it is written, as most everyone, and I am as much lost as any other enthusiast.