So tried a couple things.

For myself, I CANNOT access the Primal Data Center period. I can get to character selection for Aether and try to load in but it does not work.

Chaos server DOES work, and thus I assume the rest of the data centers work as well. I was also able to log in via a new character. Also learned that you know skip all the cutscenes instead of just the starting one if you so choose (used to be you only skipped the dream cutscene and had to do the cart cutscene.)

As for SE response, given that they usually try to be on top of things I'm assuming they are trying to figure out what is going on here and it isn't whatever would be considered "usual problems" in this case. Plus with the NA side sleeping the amount of english speakers would most likely be much smaller for communicating with us.