Wordcount keeps disappearing

I have a Pages document that is 179 pages and 48,175 words. If I select 1 word, then that is the reported word count. As soon as I click away from that selected word, the word count reports 48, 175 again. If I press shift+cmd+W, then the word count panel disappears. Clicking that shortcut again causes the correct word count to reappear.

However, at no time does the word count panel just arbitrarily disappear in any Pages document. Not in this version of Pages, nor any previous version on prior operating systems. If the reason for your experience is not here, then I have no idea why it is happening.

Pages v14 on Sonoma 14.5.

So, I tripled the content in my original document by adding a section and redundantly pasting 179 pages. Now, I have a document with 537 pages / 146,145 words and the word count panel has not vanished. Closed the document, quit Pages, and reopened it. Same page and word count as before closing the document.

If the issue were triggered by an excessive word or page count, I would have observed it here. I am also using Grammarly for macOS without any coincidental issues either.

Do you have any anti-virus software installed, or so-called "mac cleaner" applications? Does the issue persist after closing your document, quitting Pages, and a reboot? Where does this particular Pages document reside?

I just opened two separate Pages documents and then merged them into two tabs. I noticed that one document showed a page count and the one I mentioned above continued to show its word count. This suggests to me that Pages stores the individual count setting in the document, not in Pages Settings.

Still cannot explain your particular document's behavior and the periodic count panel disappearance.