And I expected that fans would resent her. I just hoped she'd be able to win them over, and from what I've seen, by and large she has

Has this exact experience. I didn't want her narrating at all, for a bit of the book. But, after a while, when it would switch away from her POV I'd get disappointed, and she's now one of my favorite characters. So yes. She succeeded there, at least for me.