> It's insane that x86 Debian is still compiling all software targeting Pentium Pro (from 1995!).

Debian 13 raised the x86 requirement to Pentium 4 because LLVM required SSE2 and Rust required LLVM.

The target before was not Pentium Pro in my understanding. It was Pentium Pro equivalent embedded CPUs. Servers and desktops since 2005 could use x86-64 Debian.