Is that why they play it on Armed Forces Network at the close of the day every day?
That aside:
1) As a solo performance for, let us say, close of the broadcast on a radio station ... I don't like it. I don't care for the "personal touches"; the odd trills and unpredictable phrasing. Neither Whitney, nor Jose, nor any other performer "owns" OUR National Anthem. Get over yourselves.
2) As a "crowd" performance for, let us say, the opening of a sporting event ... I consider it abominable. The personal touches and attempt to "own" the song explicitly shut we the people out of singing OUR National Anthem. That's grossly inappropriate and arrogant.
3) Back in the early 1990s, I attended a Pavarotti concert in DC. It was opened with OUR National Anthem ... I'm not sure if President George HW Bush's presence had anything to to with that. LP specifically invited us to join in singing it, and we did. The house ROCKED. That, FRiends, is how OUR National Anthem should be sung in public. Jose, and Whitney, and all their imitators miss the point. Luciano Pavarotti (a foreigner) got it.
And that's pretty much all I have to say about that. I don't expect most folks to agree with me.