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BA has a finite number of airplanes, crews and so on - especially now that there are no 747s and the replacement 78Xs, 35Ks haven't fully arrived yet. In this frame of mind, the airline will prioritise flying to those destinations where the return on invested capital is the highest. And, right now, a route like Pittsburgh, or Cincinnati, yields more than one to Osaka, Bangkok or KL. Plus they're shorter, so the same plane can fly 'more' passengers in the same length of time.
Unless there's less demand to fly to minor US destinations, or a dramatically large number of planes, crews, slots and so on, I doubt that a lot of these routes will come back. Plus, obviously, the Siberia overflight ban is going to be a long-standing impact.
I know I'm months late, but you also have to keep in mind that as much as I'd want BA to resume routes to the East, Asia as a whole isn't (or was never) a priority for BA's entire route network. So you shouldn't expect a full return of these said routes in the foreseeable future.