I think Real Madrid wants to play like a real team, but they haven't yet found out how they complement each other and in my opinion they are short of world class midfielders. Modric is too old although he can still play a great game, that's not the point. But compare this to the times when they had Modric and Kroos, that was insane.
There is no player who can replace a midfielder like Toni Kroos, if only relying on a midfielder like Luka Modric is not enough to lift the game that Real Madrid had last season, his limp in the middle line makes the ball supply not really good for the players in the front line sometimes Real Madrid's front players find it difficult to create goals for important matches, so it is not surprising that we will continue to see Real Madrid playing inappropriately, it does take time for the players to get their chemistry like Kylian Mbappé, Jude Bellingham both have not found the chemistry to work together in creating goal opportunities in domestic League matches or the Champions League.
Toni Kroos was one midfielder that Real Madrid will not forget in a hurry due to how he controlled the midfield alongside Luka Modric but after Kroos left Madrid, Modric became so weak because he hasn't seen another player that can match up the role that Kroos played in the midfield. Not only Mbappe and Bellingham but Vinicius is included in this circle because the three players lack the chemistry of understanding amongst themselves because if they got to understand themselves, the midfield wouldn't have been much of a problem.
In the current Madrid team, that i got to understand that when there is too many quality players in a team, it leads to some kind of confusion and lack of cooperation in the team because each of them feels bigger than the others which often leads to poor performance of the team but since Madrid is an elite club, their coach knows how to manage the team and still get good results so the lack of understanding isn't that visible because the coach knows how to do his job perfectly.