Superiority is relative. The TB were deprived of most of their repertoire because it's too risky against the Westerners. What's left are petty harassing and delaying actions.

The Mujahedeen faced a more permissive enemy, especially in regard to sensor technology.



The convoy losses comparison is afaik rather misleading, for the Soviets were actually escorting their own truck with MRD personnel and equipment, while much of the modern-day convoys are afaik regional truckers moving from one bribery checkpoint to the next.



JMA; avoiding IEDs won't help much either on the strategic level. De-valueing this tool in the TB's repertoire would merely push them to emphasis what's left of their repertoire; that would be attacks on ANA/ANP/officials plus mafia-like subversion, the maintenance of a parallel state.
The Western missions would drag on and on and on ... because nobody has the balls to make a step back and lure the TB out into the open and defeat them once they become cocky enough to be defeated.
Instead everybody is fixated on reducing the TB's options more and more and more in pursuit of - what exactly? You cannot defeat someone who doesn't dare to fight you any more. That exact situation is no victory either, for the enemy has still other options.