Yeah. That really doesn’t need to be from the store.
I really hate going through the Apple Store to download Xcode. We all know how to download software. I’d rather go through a dev portal than a consumer portal.
YMMV
Xcode can be downloaded from developer.apple.com too, it's not an App Store exclusive.
> I’d rather go through a dev portal than a consumer portal.
You actually can, alongside with conmand line tools, additional xcode utils, debug kernels et cetera.
Command line: https://github.com/XcodesOrg/xcodes
GUI: https://github.com/XcodesOrg/XcodesApp