Oh yes… And in addition to the routing issues that the internet seems to be having as of late, which sometimes affects some of our users, there also seems to be a widespread DNS issue, usually just with the tracker. This can generally be bypassed either by using Google DNS, or by modifying your system's hosts file to include the reference to the tracker. When you combine these two issues, they can become quite problematic for a lot of people.
I personally do not seem to be affected by the DNS issues, as I run my own DNS systems, so I can keep everything running properly. I do however experience routing issues from some countries which result in the exact symptoms that you describe where it either gets stuck in "Establishing Secure Connection" or "Waiting for..."
Generally, when I run into routing issues, changing the country that I'm using for the VPN, or turning the VPN off completely seems to solve the problem every time.