PSG's decline has indeed made the Ligue 1 competition even fiercer and I think that is quite a positive thing for many teams to be more enthusiastic in the competition for the title and make this competition even fiercer.
Despite the problems that PSG is currently experiencing, I am very happy about this because it allows other Ligue 1 teams to develop further.
And for Monaco, I think they are still the same as last season, but because of PSG's decline, they are now at the top of the standings.
Psg are in their bad times lately and other teams are capitalizing on their poor form and are snatching the 3 points away from them, well I still think there's hope for them this season to defend their title and sooner or later they'll bounce back and begin to be consistent in winning games moreover they're still very strong league contenders even though they're not currently at the top of standings as expected.
Well you're right because smaller clubs are now begin to perform better and re in a better position on the standings than PSG it would very interesting to see another team go far in the league and probably win I'm place of PSG, Monaco seem like a team that could do that this season but I doubt if they'll survive till the end of this season.