There was a general misconception (outside the US military) that the Soviets were hyper-focused on centralized control. That was true at the operational level, but at the tactical level, through the binoculars, it looked like gangs and hordes. It was certainly more chaotic, and not necessarily as synchronized as the Soviets would have hoped. In terms of armored, mechanized, artillery and aviation, maintenance was a significant obstacle. I attended command and staff schools with Russian officers in early/mid 90's when that was first vogue. These men a few years earlier had been Soviet commanders. Soviet tactical commanders had a playbook (our intel guys' templates), but would readily adhoc groups as needed and available. One issue (of many) was that their enlistment and training cycles didn't support building that teamwork and cohesion into reliably repeatable and trained formations... hence the chaos.