Count of matched documents without the documents

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I'm using the _find-Function due it's neat selector-syntax. The "fields"-option controls which fields (attributes with content aka keys with values) should be returned. But they are some use-cases you just want to know how many matches occurred without any returned fields. How can I achieve that?

Sure they are the execution_stats which contain the keys "total_docs_examined" and "results_returned" which contain the count that I need. Unfortunately the "fields" came back as well, how can I suppress this behaviour?

As this question remains unanswered for days I assumed that this feature does not exists. So here it is in the "Ideas"-Category.