Wow, they even have a .pkg installer. Had no idea. Is this new?

Without going too far down the rabbit hole, it looks like the maintainers added it in 2023. In the process, I was reminded that the installer initially required Ruby! (/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl…)

FYI, mas is the equivalent of a package manager for macOS apps (a.k.a. a CLI for App Store). https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Other than brew, I use mise for everything I can. https://mise.jdx.dev/