I never expected someone to answer a 'new feature' suggestion to echo a default reply to the status window.
Most new features are requested out of scripter-laziness rather than scripting-limitation or general need. With that said, i always suggest a workaround whenever possible, I even attempt to make workarounds for MY suggested features. In this case, the workaround is pretty simple, and isn't too obstructing-- I'm sure a ctcp to the status every now and then won't kill your theme. Heck you could even make ctcp colours the same colour as the background and you wouldn't even see it, but that's going a bit too far. Plus there's always the debug option (which I don't support, too many bad things can come from it, i've asked khaled to limit that feature as well)
I guess it comes down to this- the version reply event is something that has been locked ever since mirc supported remote events; and as much as it would be nice to have this feature more customizable, i doubt it will be changed-- but who knows.