How do I turn this dataviewjs list into a table?

[wealthychef1]

Hello, I have the following functional codeblock in a page.

dv.list(dv.current().file.inlinks.where(a => String(a) != dv.current().file.link && !/Archive|MOC/.test(a)))

I want to make it into a table but my efforts are returning errors which I am too dumb to fathom. For example, this is bad:

dv.table(["Link"], dv.current().file.inlinks.where(a => a != dv.current().file.link && !/Archive|MOC/.test(a)))

gives Evaluation Error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'link')

This is also bad:

dv.table(["Link"], dv.array(dv.current().file.inlinks).where(a => a != dv.current().file.link && !/Archive|MOC/.test(a)).map(l => [l.file.link]))

At the heart of the problem is some difference between dv.current().file.inlinks and dv.pages("query"). The latter is what I use in my dv.table() queries elsewhere and it works fine.

What am I doing wrong?
The reason I'm doing this is that "lists" do not have headers and do not declare theselves to be empty. So when the list is empty I cannot tell where it is on the page. Tables are polite enough to say that they have no entries in them. :-)
thanks for any help.