...
Two crucial properties of the restored content item, however, are not inherited retained from the earlier revision: the publication state and workflow status. These two properties of a restored revision are always inherited from the latest revision before it was restored. The most important reason for this is to prevent an unpublished/inactive content item from becoming published/active as a result of the restore action.
its publication state and its workflow status. If needed, you can revert a content item to a state in the past in order to begin anew from a specific point.
...