I believe Debian is pretty much never on the latest kernel, their priority is stability and not having the latest everything, so you should be good for a while.
Worst case scenario, you can still recompile the kernel with those drivers put back in, I guess.
Let’s see how Debian maintainers deals with it.
I use to give very old hardware a second life for people in need around where I live.
That includes most of which was moved to Amber and in some case, something that got unsupported.
I believe Debian is pretty much never on the latest kernel, their priority is stability and not having the latest everything, so you should be good for a while.
Worst case scenario, you can still recompile the kernel with those drivers put back in, I guess.