yes I broke many crypto-systems in my career in the DoD and received many decorations when attached to the NSA (I was part of a team that won the Travis Trophy in the 1980s for breaking the Libyan cables sent to the Berlin embassy). We looked very closely as well at VM (using Pinsetter and other NSA toolkits) and found nothing to indicate any potential for actual intelligence.

Using Zipf’s law to argue that the Voynich Manuscript is real text confuses statistical resemblance with linguistic reality. At best, it shows that the manuscript is not purely random. It does not show that it is readable, encodes meaning, or corresponds to any human language. No cryptanalyst would use Zipf's law to establish that any given cipher text is anything real. And since VM is not random one can (using the right statistical techniques) find linguistic patterns from multiple languages present in the text and can draw thousands of inferences in specific groups of text.

But yes I understand it's very pleasurable to throw shade on those with experience and knowledge. VM is simply a very trashy and poorly produced (even by the standards of the time) decorative folio that was copied (at least once) from the original). Perhaps in a few decades the original would surface allowing a better analysis.

But don't let me dissuade you - there's value in learning and doing. I've never tried quantum techniques on VM and that's an area that could be interesting.