Define old. If one is looking for a fanless system this is exactly the type of CPUs you will end up with. Just check the specs of well known NAS systems - a huge number of them are arm5 or i386 code inside.
Exactly: nowadays it's only used in closed systems where the user is not supposed to touch the software installation at all. As an individual you can't easily get a 32 bit CPU any more on the market.
But that's not even the point. The decision whether I want to include binaries for a platform or not is rather "statistics": if only a hand full of users need it, I won't provide it. It's not only about the work to do it, but it's also about the overhead in the repository, in packages etc.
FWIW: there are about three times as many armv5 based LMS8 installations as i386. And both of them are very low single digit percentage of the install base.
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