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Kober was very determined that systematic analysis of the text would eventually work. She rejected the idea that you could just hypothesize what language it was. Because so many people had tried and failed that way.

Maybe at some point she had this idea. But you really must understand how bad of a fit classical Greek, and even the early Greek dialects, really is. Like.. a few words work out here and there. What convinced Chadwick were the place names, some names of Gods, and one particularly long 13 symbol patronymic. But for anything more you had to start adding, removing, reinterpreting characters and assuming that the original text got them wrong.

Also Kobler was missing most of the text since it hadn't been published yet, in her small corpus this would have been ever worse.

Even after people saw the decoding the main sticking point for years was that you need to make so many changes for it to work out in Greek that you're just making up the text. It took decades of work to make the decoding work and many of the decodings Ventris put forward were found to be wrong.

Eventually Kober maybe would have worked with Chadwick or someone similar who knew a more archaic variant or maybe Chadwick himself would have noticed it.