Gonna autism dump here a little but Nucleon isn't exactly the same thing as drugs. Specifically, it was a new kind of fuel source (vs. Energon) that gave a significant power boost, but the trade off was those using it couldn't transform (until later when some of them just regained it to some capacity anyway).
Steroids are drugs. 'nuff said.
As for Transformers, I don't care much about the series, nor I care that much about yhe characters. They're neat, but Generation 1's just an entertaining, cheaply made toy commercial. Gundam, from five years prior, while having the same goal, reinvented the genre by making the robots just another piece of machinery that runs out of ammo, gets damaged, destroyed, ect, plus it had a focus on the main story about war being evil and how different humans behave during it. Plus, the animation is better, in most episodes.
For both, however, I mostly like their toys. Transformers figures, I love the transformations of. The massive puzzle inbetween is what I love about the early movie figures and bigger modern figures. With Gundam, the model kits, the process of constructing them, giving the more detail, the different moving parts. While I saw a few Gumdam shows, digging deep into the franchise would consume my life. Gundam 00's great, but that's one of the few shows I've seen in full.
So yeah...the philosophy of mine with both is...if there's a figure that looks good and that is very complex that's within my budget, I'll buy it and occupy my hands with while doing other shit.
TL

R - Transformers: Energon is the only good Transformers series because it introduced gay sex into the franchise (powerlinxing). Still bad tho because Megatron cannot top Starscream.