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https://youtube.com/@voynichtalk
This is a great channel that goes into great detail of basically all theories and the biggest pros/cons is them
His favorite theory is that it's an old hoax, aiming to sell the book to a well known collector back then
And the text is "generated" with a simple algorithm (simple enough to do manually back in the day)