Wondering about REST API difference between _cat/count vs _stats

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Trying to understand why it seems that indicies/_stats doesn't return the proper numbers of docs as _cat/count/index and kibana discover does?

eg. finding these samples from a sample index with a simple REST API CLI wrapper:

$ esapi -g _cat/count/ebopsyslog.2019
1657484984 20:29:44 2993565
$ esapi -g ebopsyslog.2019/_stats | jq ._all.primaries.docs.count
6574428
$ esapi -g ebopsyslog.2019/_stats | jq . | grep 2993565

Counting via Kibana Discover I also finds 2,993,264 hits from this sample index, was expecting the same counts from both API calls...

Hints appreciated!

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