Who actually wants the Voynich solved?

[rikforto]

But when I talk about the entropy problem, that's just shorthand for saying "q is always followed by o, why do so many words end with "n", why is this "n" so often preceded by a number of minims, which in turn are preceded by "a", what's up with "ed, ched and edy", what's up with gallow placement, and if we ignore the frequent suffixes, what's actually left of the root of words? etc etc etc". There are very concrete problems lurking behind these statistics. 

I agree with this, and a minority opinion I have is that the primacy of the statistical formulation is quite unfortunate; it's obviously a qualitative problem that could be formulated in a great many ways with a great many qualifications. I do not go to die on this hill because I believe the h2 statistics capture it just fine, and went with that formulation because I assumed it would be a familiar shorthand widely held and thus not become The Topic. But contra the idea that there are sacred cows no one dare slaughter, virtually any example remains a hot button issue that can derail a thread. (Perhaps I could have picked the carbon dating, as everyone agrees that was done correctly and can be straightforwardly interpreted---wait, sorry, getting a bunch of DMs about that, hang on.)

Let it also be said a solver who made this argument following this question, whether I agree or not, would count for me as having addressed it:

Why should they? [...]

This is...not the typical solver, to say the least.