Can we go further?

[Rafal]

I can see a kind of progress in people considering more and more seriously that the text is meaningless.

In the past everyone was convinced that the manuscript is a meaningful, "normal" medieval treatise. Just written in a strange way.

I have read recently about Ethel Voynich tediously going to libraries, browsing a lot of books and trying to identify the plants. Not for a single moment she had a thought that the plants are not existing, that they are frankensteins and chimeras, built from parts of several other plants.
Or remember that sunflower thing.

Today the opinion that plants are imaginary is mainstream, I believe. Acceptance of it IS a progress.

There are people who would disagree but there is more and more acceptance for opinion that the artist was a kind of medieval dj, borrowing and mixing a lot of stuff but not truly understanding it. And there are data being collected that confirm that.
It is also a progress. Maybe not obvious for everyone but for me it is a progress.