Doesn't help if you have actually been disconnected from the server which appeared to be the biggest issue yesterday. It also should not be necessary.
Last year had similar network issues but I feel that they were not nearly as extreme (results actually being lost) as this year and they did not seem to linger on for nearly 3 weeks.
For my part my server disconnect that killed it for me came on Thursday night. I lost an hour of playtime and the advances that were made in multiple missions. This basically pushed me over the edge to the point where I did not even attempt to play at all yesterday, even though I had the whole day to do so.