yes it was, nobody will dispute that. The developers decided not to provide any meaningful updates during early access and they told all the large streamers such as shroud not to play it until full release, they put all their eggs into one basket, this full release launch. It has paid off, so many large streamers have started playing, shroud, jasonr, skadoodle, mendo, optic hecz, hutch, jericho even drdisrespect says it is a quality game. You also have big sites like dexerto, dot esports etc writing about the game. I'm not saying you should start coding a cheat for it right now, that would be foolish as the player base could decline and drop to only a couple thousand, however keep an eye on it at least, this game has the potential and the partners (square enix, faceit) to grow a good bit more.
Also steamcharts was not working properly recently, use steamdb to see accurately how the player base has been increasing day by day.