Ah, here's one thing you don't seem to understand -- Debian is an open-source operating system. The programs are not compiled at all, they are provided in source-code form. If you have Debian binaries that were compiled for ridiculously old hardware, that simply means you were too lazy to compile Debian yourself, and grabbed binaries that someone else compiled for you (and you probably picked up the wrong binaries anyway, as Debian is popular enough to have people providing lots of different pre-compiled binaries for lots of different targets, so you should be able to full advantage of modern hardware).

Besides, if you really want a bleeding-edge Linux distribution, ultra-conservative Debian is the wrong choice. Something like, say, Fedora would be more up your alley...

In any case, if releasing new, incompatible hardware were as much a problem as you are worrying about, companies like Intel and Mips would have shut their doors decades ago.