CDK Boostrapping - Cloudformation Events stuck in status 'CREATE_IN_PROGRESS'

I'm new to using CDK (educational purposes) and attempting to create an S3 bucket using CDK from within VS Code leveraging typescript

Dependencies:

• VS Code Version: 1.78.1 (Universal)-
• Node.js v18.15.0
• Version 5.0.4
• AWS cli version aws-cli/2.11.18 Python/3.11.3 Darwin/22.4.0 exe/x86_64 prompt/off
• AWS CDK Version 2.78.0 (build 8e95c37)

I've followed the described process several times and even created a brand new AWS account just in case it was some conflict with my old my account that was the problem).

In all cases, a staging S3 bucket get's created but when I check the AWS console > Cloudformation > CDKToolkit > Events, I'm finding some events like 'StagingBucketPolicy', 'DeploymentActionRole' and 'StagingBucketPolicy' remain stuck in status 'CREATE_IN_PROGRESS'.

While others like 'ImagePublishingRoleDefaultPolicy' and other interspersed ones have status CREATE_COMPLETE.

Also, within terminal, I do NOT get a table with lots of resources created as expected.

The above essentially leave my environment incompletely bootstrapped. Therefore when I go and run 'cdk deploy', I only see a 'CDKMetadata' folder created inside the [YourStackNameHere] folder within Cloudformation. And no further resources. I can not find a workaround answer anywhere.