Oh, for sure, and you have brew cask for an awesome collection of free/oss apps. https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/

That's more on the nerdy side, I was thinking more in the sense of the fancy/fun/quality feeling the Mac app store selection should evoke, instead it's just a ghost town with expensive bullshit and ass UX (at least based on what I remember - I haven't opened that damn app in ages lol).