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I think guix was just late to the party and the extra steps to setup the nonguix for the non free software like steam is enough of a deterrent for users to go to nix instead.

I use guix myself and prefer its use of scheme. I don't mind having a little less guidance and "how-to" articles available if I'm trying something new because I'm comfortable reading its codebase.

That's what it was for me. I'm really fuzzy on the details because this was years ago. When I first heard about Guix, I wanted to try it (even though I didn't understand the benefits) but there was some unfree part I needed to install it. And ideologically they were against that. There either weren't good tutorials on how to bypass it or it was not even possible. So I just didn't install it.

FWIW Nix does not allow unfree packages by default or, at least, that's what having to add a package to allowUnfreePredicate makes it feel like.

How is Guix's repository? One of Nix's biggest draws (I'd say the biggest) is it's expansive package repository.