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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.
M_V
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.)