This has been the same for years, time to stop worrying about them, the WIndies test side is the side that just faced us. They will never play test cricket again, it's pointless talking about them. In effect they're retired from test cricket. If Germany went to the euros without Hummels, Boateng, Neuer etc and conceded 7 goals a game, we wouldn't say 'several of the Germany stars were missing'... We'd say they were crap in the tournament...
WIndies test side is awful. The unrest will never change for test cricket, they don't make enough from home tours to pay the players what they want. Like Bumble said on Sky after test 1, forget them, they're irrelevant. WIndies cricket is not in a good place.