Result of contract method .send is hard to type

[avkos]

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Fixes #6701

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

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Files count	Total bundle size	% Changed
10	618.52 kB → 618.57 kB (+56 B)	+0.01%

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Asset	File Size	% Changed
../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	8.63 kB → 8.69 kB (+56 B)	+0.63%

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Asset	File Size	% Changed
web3.min.js	599.51 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	3.89 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/types.d.ts	2.45 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	1.35 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/web3_eip6963.d.ts	1.2 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/abi.d.ts	999 B	0%
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	280 B	0%
../lib/commonjs/providers.exports.d.ts	183 B	0%
../lib/commonjs/version.d.ts	60 B	0%

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Benchmark

Benchmark suite	Current: 0b95837	Previous: 6c075db	Ratio
processingTx	9547 ops/sec (±4.38%)	9301 ops/sec (±4.81%)	0.97
processingContractDeploy	41245 ops/sec (±7.60%)	39129 ops/sec (±7.62%)	0.95
processingContractMethodSend	20013 ops/sec (±5.67%)	19443 ops/sec (±5.19%)	0.97
processingContractMethodCall	40459 ops/sec (±4.84%)	38971 ops/sec (±6.34%)	0.96
abiEncode	45072 ops/sec (±6.41%)	44252 ops/sec (±6.92%)	0.98
abiDecode	32204 ops/sec (±6.91%)	30419 ops/sec (±8.89%)	0.94
sign	1647 ops/sec (±1.28%)	1656 ops/sec (±4.08%)	1.01
verify	367 ops/sec (±2.64%)	373 ops/sec (±0.78%)	1.02

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Codecov Report

Merging #6883 (0b95837) into 4.x (383af39) will not change coverage.
Report is 1 commits behind head on 4.x.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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Components	Coverage Δ
web3	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-core	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-errors	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-abi	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-accounts	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-contract	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-ens	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-iban	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-personal	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-net	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-http	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ipc	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ws	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-rpc-methods	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-utils	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-validator	∅ <ø> (∅)

[jdevcs]

#6701 (comment)

[jdevcs]

also add in changelog @avkos