IDK; at the time i was using gentoo, in which it's natural not to have more modules than necessary because part of the installation process involves generating your own kernel configuration.
Even though it's not the normal way to install debian there ought to be some sort of way to build your own custom kernels and modules without interferance from the package manager (or you can just run it all manually and hope that you dont end up in a conflict with apt). Gentoo is the only distro where it's mandatory but im pretty sure this is supported on just about every distribution since it would be necessary for maintainers.
Surprisingly enough the hardest part about gentoo is actually not the kernel but the userspace. Every package has these "use flags" and "keyword flags" which can control compile-time options and that seems fine enough on its own until you get to the point where you have multiple packages all sharing a dependency with mutually-exclusive USE flags and it's entirely up to you to figure out how to untangle this mess in a way that every package's dependencies are satisfied.
Even though it's not the normal way to install debian there ought to be some sort of way to build your own custom kernels and modules without interferance from the package manager (or you can just run it all manually and hope that you dont end up in a conflict with apt). Gentoo is the only distro where it's mandatory but im pretty sure this is supported on just about every distribution since it would be necessary for maintainers.