I want to see pending transaction even when there are zero confirmations. I get nervous waiting to see $1000's of dollars of fiat in limbo for ~10+ minutes. The QT client shows pending transactions within seconds.
Armory shows zero-confirmation transactions. Have you seen this persistently, or once? Because occasionally the transactions do not propagate to every node, though I haven't seen that happen in a long time. But I would not be surprised if that happened once. If it happens more than once, please send a log file to our support email (at bitcoinarmory.com).