v2.2: reworks gossip packets-sent metrics (backport of #4890) #4935
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Problem
A lot of gossip packets are not counted, and for some there are duplicate metrics.
Summary of Changes
The commit adds helper methods to count gossip packet every time we create outbound packets.
This is an automatic backport of pull request #4890 done by [Mergify](https://mergify.com).