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In my experience, steel freehubs on ‘nice’ hubs/wheels are much less common than ali and ali freehubs that have bite guards are much less common than those that don’t.
Unless you have a special use case; the wheel will be used for heavily loaded touring, singlespeed, ebike, then I wouldn’t be worrying too much about what your freehub body is made of.
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Not sure there's that many hubs where you have an option? Fulcrum, maybe? And the only point of swapping out an ally freehub body which isn't toast yet is to avoid the hassle of getting a cassette of individual cogs off which have bitten in... I guess they can go slightly out of phase as they do so, which might hurt shifting a bit perhaps. Wouldn't bother.
But Red cassette is billet anyway - it has a nice fat splined section on each end, too thick to bite into Shimano splines in ally.
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So if your wheel came with an alloy Shimano-style body, you would swap it for a steel one as preventive maintenance? (My cassette is Sram Red, described as high grade tool steel.)