otherwise base teching costs are already reduced to inconsequential.
But... soviet tech costs are exactly the same as they were.
It gets even harder to pin down after you account for tier skips, reinforcement, doctrine calls in, bigger squad sizes and vet bonus
Soviets can't skip tiers.
Only Ost can.
sov are pretty much king of late games dig-in.
And ost is king of late game breakthrough, with rocket arty wiping whatever it aims at, especially post its massive buff and brummbar does not give a fuck and frontally destroys ATGs and infantry regardless of number of models.