To me a dynamic voice is better than a "look at how high I can go, look at me show off!" type of voice because this isn't something you can always learn.
Agreed; I'd rather a singer know their limitations and do their best with what they have, than to try and fit into someone else's expectations of what they should be. This is why I like Anette, because she has never tried to "replace" Tarja. She has done a damn fine job incorporating herself into the band and becoming as important a member of the overall dynamic as Marco or Tuomas. For argument's sake, if Tarja did come back, and she would have to sing the Anette-era songs live (not that this would happen, but this is just a 'what if?' scenario), I doubt she'd be able to pull of a song like "Slow, Love, Slow" in quite the same way.
As far as Anette's looks...come on, if she were a guy, would people even be having this conversation? Hell, Robert Smith from the Cure even admits that after touring, he "lets himself go" and is quite overweight whenever he starts a tour, and then ultimately works it all off and is skinny again by the end. But I never hear anyone say "oh look, Robert Smith is so fat, he sounds terrible!" So until we can have this kind of criticism towards male singers as we do towards female ones---pardon the pun---this argument doesn't carry a lot of weight with me. I'm going to a concert to listen to the band play and to the vocalist sing, and I could care less if Anette was 500 pounds and looked like Homer Simpson in a mumu, so long as she sounded good and gave her all to the performance.
But I also realize that there are those who just want to hate Anette for whatever reason, and will use any excuse under the sun to do so.
Honestly, if Anette is "fat", I would love to be that fat!
Hmm, maybe they meant she's "phat" instead (Pretty, Hot, and Tempting)?
