Many of these urban dioceses treated "Catholic" as an ethnicity and the Church as a denomination for so long that they had no chance of keeping the younger generations.  Moves like this look like more of the same defeatism, a management of the decline, making sure somebody is around to turn out the lights when the last one leaves.

Where is the return to mission?  And given that the vocations crisis is a self-inflicted wound, why no actions to heal it by adopting best practices from dioceses that are doing better?

Even something as simple as inviting a vital and growing religious congregation to buy a building and take over a former parish (as Bernardin, of all people, did with the Subiaco-Cassinese Benedictines from New Mexico) would be a good start.  Surely there are Dominicans or Benedictines or ICRSS or Canons Regular available to send six men to Pittsburgh.