It probably looks like Openreach won't be using much Long Reach VDSL2 now anyway:
I hadn't seen it stated in as formal a place as the OTA before, but it does look like the death of LR-VDSL. There doesn't even seem to be any conditional statements, like it is being considered for exchanges where no LLU is in place.
I'm assuming that not pursuing it for the USO indicates that they won't be using it much at all.
That's what I infer.
As LR-VDSL was one of the technologies that BT intended to use in its offer to meet the USO (funded via wholesale top-up charges), I'd also expect that offer is now defunct too. At the very least, it would need a re-plan and a new budget.
It also looked like that offer was dead for the same reason as LR-VDSL: interference from LLU operators, presumably unwilling to pay the wholesale charge or perhaps feeling that non-BT-based suppliers won't chip in. But I vaguely recall BT touting it again recently, so perhaps they are still pursuing it in a different form.
At the very least, however, it must be infuriating to not be able to help those customers on non-LLU exchanges because of demands by LLU operators that aren't willing to take on anything loss-inducing. Yet Ofcom clings to hope.