When you have a compelling product, sometimes you can do a pull, not push GTM strategy.
If you push a product out into the market that isn't yet good enough, you risk burning out parts of your market.
This push model is necessary for most products because users don't really care enough about your thing to pull it out of your hands.
But if you're in a push model, you have to be really sure that it's good enough for users, or it will be game over.
Sometimes you have a product that you know will be special and in demand:
1) Solves a common user need nothing else solves
2) Is charismatic and fun to use: it demos well.
3) It's implemented in a differentiated way.
In these cases, you can follow a pull model.
Instead of trying to get as much usage as possible, you temper it with a check metric: minimizing the number of users who use it and have such a bad experience they'll never use it again.
One way to minimize that downside is to make sure it's really really good before you launch it.
Another way is to make sure that the users who use it first are a self-selected set who are more motivated and thus resilient than the normal population.
Sometimes there's a natural "gauntlet" that is hard to navigate, but the users who make it through have proven they are more resilient.
For example, you could bury the feature deep in the product, without many affordances.
Then, you watch how those users who make it through like it.
The more that those users like it, the more you can reduce the amount of gauntlet others have to go through, because you have more confidence the feature is viable.
As you see how real users use it, you will learn more about what's resonating and can adapt and lean into that to make it better and better.
By the time you get to mass adoption, the product will be way better than it was before.
Just be sure to know where you want the product to go, so you don't blindly follow the "weird" requests of early adopters and iterate into a dead end.
You want to surf the energy in front of you not with the steepest gradient, but that best aligns with where you want to go.
You will have minimized the downside at each step, while still leaving open the upside; if it's received way better than you thought it would be, you can simply put your foot on the gas.