Decoding the Voynich Symbols

[tavie]

 You feel like the solution was there in plain sight, and that somebody else might also stumble upon it tomorrow.

Yet despite it being in plain sight, at no point does anyone seem to ask the question "If I've made the breakthrough in a matter of minutes/hours/days, how come all these people - including expert codebreakers and linguists - labouring over it for decades didn't find it?  Wait a minute, could I have fallen into the same trap as all those wrong solvers before me?"