stew is collection of utilities, std library extensions and budding libraries that are frequently used at Status, but are too small to deserve their own git repository.
Currently (the latest commit in unstable branch), the CI log for the 1.6 branch has 107.000 lines.
Removing every hint about cannot raise 'Defect' (including the ones in the vendor directory) leaves 16.000 lines. 85% off.
A continuation of https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/3888
Rationale (from that link):