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I'm guilty of having my main be an IG tale as well, but I'm curious. Black Library has an extensive amount of IG stories, but they still maintain the gargantuan amount of Spess Mahreen stories that bury everything else. So why is the Imperial Guard so popular in Fanfic circles?

Is it because, being actual humans, it is easier to relate to them than to post human supersoldiers? Or enigmatic Tau? Or comparably one note Orks?

Yes and no, a guard storyis easyer torelate to. But you realy need to keep it balancing on a knifes edge. No one likes to read about guardsmen who goes one on one witha Carnifex and pummels it. Nor is it fun if everyone dies befor the first pharagrap is done.
And yes, I suppose that them being regular humans do make it a lot more easier to relate to than Nids or Orks or Space Marines for that mather.

I'm surprised that there isn't more stuff regarding inquisitors or the Arbites. Who wouldn't want to see a cop drama play out in sufficiently 40K over the top style?

Or an Inquisitorial detective story.

Well Inqusitors are known for being rather dickish at times, but if you managed to portait a Inqusitor that actualy carfes beyound burning people and going about screaming heresy at each turn I think it could work. And Arbites has been portraired rather well in a BL book, Enforcer I think its name was.

I believe there is more guard stories that anything else cos it's very difficult to write from a perspective of a race that has a completely different moral perspective than humanity without painting them as evil/good.

Heresy! There can NEVER be too much guard fiction!

long live Imperial Guard fiction

I think it's easiest to write something from a Guard's perspective. Aliens are hard, as are nearly non-humans (marines) and over zealous peeps (SoB and Inquisitors).

Dan Abnett is very central in the writing about Judge Dredd as a comic, so I could see more cop-fiction in WH40k, though if going by that theme they all lives like Sororitas in a monastery, they don't have family to remain unbribeable and well a third strike at parking wrongly gets your car blown up. Plus having Fox Crime I have many great cop-shows like Monk (that guy would make an awesome and funny Inquisitor "You import manure??!! That's worse than worshiping the Ruinous Powers, Burn!!!" Perversion of the quote of course).

As for guard-fiction, I think there is much written but often with little interest from the author. Then again it's often easy to go hyperbole which is equally bad.