Words collection is empty in Story with ONLY Tables in separate Paragraphs...

Words collection for a Story - or Paragraph - that has ONLY Tables - is empty...

The word collection for a story with multiple returns or white spaces also empty.

var i = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().insertionPoints.everyItem().getElements();
$.writeln(i.length)
//returns 15

var w = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().words.everyItem().getElements();
$.writeln(w.length)
//returns 0

Well, depends on how you look at it. From InDesign's perspective it's consistent. A table sits in a placeholder that's dubbed Character, but it's not a character in the sense of a glyph. When you (grep) search . (any character( you won't find anything.

The same goes for embedded frames, you get the same results.