The whole point in having standards for accessibility is to remove the subjectivity from a process that is otherwise depended on the capricious whim of any, possibly poorly informed, end user.
As you know, I am a big fan VoiceOver, and I resent having been goaded into repeated pointing out this particular flaw. Heck, their is a sizable minority of people who have no idea how to read a data table, and a much larger group who would actively avoid being bothered to do so. For all practical purposes, this is a minor problem for a consumer product. It has taken more than a year for the issue to come up on this list. The critics do the market a disservice, and look foolish in the process, by not acknowledging VoiceOver's very real capabilities. But the same can be said of people who resist having an honest conversation about VoiceOver's very real limitations.
