That's just pushing the problem elsewhere. How management suppose to know if guest support pvpanic device?
The problem isn't new and management already does that when figuring whenever the guest should get ide/ahci/virtio-blk/virtio-scsi storage, ac97 or intel-hda sound, rtl8139/e1000/virtio nic, ...
Depending on the management, "management" could just be the user. Most of the time the user simply says to use virtio in the XML.
If it had to be specified manually every time, pvpanic would be just another knob that nobody uses. The point of pvpanic was to be as automatic and unobtrusive as possible.
Replying to Eric's concerns, drivers can be installed anyway even if the devices are hidden. Windows will detect that the driver matches the ACPI ID of pvpanic (QEMU0001) and install it.
Resetting bit 2 is Microsoft's suggested way to hide devices, even broken ones (i.e. with bit 3 = 0 in _STA). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff547032(v=vs.85).a... for more information. The document also mentions that it is possible to show hidden devices, at which point the user will see pvpanic. In this case, having the exclamation mark is good and expected, since the lack of a driver is real.
(Besides, I would not be much worried about Microsoft's choice of icons. I doubt a machine would be considered "not healthy" just because the "missing driver" icon looks worrisome).
Paolo