LOL!!! Huge pre-construction delays due to Tesla being bad with paperwork happen so regularly it sometimes seems to almost be the norm. The problem is that they are working on too many locations for the size of their teams. Things like 1 or 2+ month waits between plans resubmittals to address minor/cosmetic issues for building permit applications happen all the time. And even then, lots of times those resubmittals don't address all the minor deficiencies that resulted in non-approval for the prior submittal, thus necessitating a further submission cycle with another month plus wait between for Tesla to get their paperwork corrected. Etc.
The one non-Tesla thing that regularly creates significant delays for supercharger sites is waiting for the utility company to provide and hook up the site transformer. Pretty much every thing else is due to issues on the Tesla side. But since most of those Tesla-side things happen before construction, they aren't anywhere near as visible as the transformer thing. It's not that there's never stupid delays caused by the local jurisdiction or their approval process, but when viewing the supercharger network in NA as a whole those are mostly outliers and not the normal state of affairs.
