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Presumably by meaning the Soviet Economy was a lot larger to support all of these things.
Garbage in, garbage out. The problem with Soviet central planning was not that it "wasn't efficient enough." It was an inherently political task with political priorities decided by the Central Committee under heavy pressure from the military.
Every aspect of the Soviet economy was warped around the figures produced to justify those priorities. The official Soviet accounting procedures which assigned prices (because prices were essentially arbitrary in the absence of a market mechanism) massively undercosted the production of munitions and arms while overcosting consumer goods to a ridiculous degree. Allocations of raw materials, tools, workers, electricity, and all other resources revolved around those distorted figures, but it isn't like they need Colossus/Guardian to tell them that their focus on heavy industry was inefficient. The problem is that people who told the Central Committee that their focus on heavy industry and military production was economically inefficient tended not to remain in positions where they could influence matters, if you catch my meaning. And of course omnipresent secrecy, fear, and corruption heavily interfered with actually accounting for the resources that were distributed, anyway.
So yeah, while CyberSyn might make things a little more efficient, there is like zero reason to believe it would change any of the underlying fundamentals of the Soviet economy. Because those fundamentals were a political and not an economic issue. If the managers at Russian CyberSyn suggest cutting the Red Army's allocation of tank production they'll just be moved off to a new facility in sunny Siberia and their computer rededicated to modelling nuclear weapon physics.