Do not hide valuable work to protect yourself from ordinary criticism.

Ordinary criticism is survivable, forgettable, and usually less severe than the version you have imagined. Keeping good work hidden to avoid it means the world loses the work and you gain very little protection. The trade is worse than it appears from behind the door.

Ask what specifically you expect people to say, and how much it would actually matter in a month. Then release the work. Most of what you feared either does not happen or does not last.