Who actually wants the Voynich solved?

[rikforto]

I think there is a conflation of skepticism, which is demanding a high bar of evidence and reasoning to overcome doubt, with close mindedness, which is simply not considering new evidence and reasoning. The purest example of this is "looks-like" theories, where the solver says that the manuscript "looks like" something else, and then is surprised when the rest of us do not simply nod and go, "Of course, why didn't I see that?" 

Most solvers do not see it this way, but I firmly believe they would actually find closed mindedness far more comfortable. They would garner far less painful criticism---both in that there would be less of it, and in that it would be easier to write off---if people were not so willing to consider new solutions from a great many angles and compare it to what is already known. This is not to say that I have never seen someone make a motivated point or dismiss an idea too quickly, but I think the experience of solvers is that they get duly and thoroughly considered on this forum and that is what they do not like.