It only took me - a long term @NordVPN user - about an hour (sic!) to figure out how to connect to my NordVPN Mesh router on MS Windows NordVPN 8.14.4.0.
If you're lost same way I was, instead of looking for "route" button in Meshnet section of the app, go to VPN main screen,
Thermodynamics, compression, and training share the same floor H(p). Whether you're falling, being pushed toward or burning fuel to temp. climb away from it.

