You made some sense in your explanation but let's remove individual sentiment of our feelings in this case and analyze the situation of the two teams in a more real state, you will understand with me that Real Madrid and Barcelona don't have a balanced strength. Even when Barcelona was winning matches consecutively and topping the league table, Real Madrid was literally underperforming while everyone was praising Barcelona alone so while will Real Madrid make improvements now and are also enjoying those cheerful moments that Barcelona was enjoying while topping the league and you want to say that they are both balanced in performance, nah they ain't balanced from my own point of view but however, in order not to make this a prolonged argument i will rather say you should believe it from your own perspective while i believe mine as well.
Actually, the position of a team cannot determine if they are more superior than others since they can lose that position either on the long run or short run but yet in the case of Real Madrid and Barcelona, even though they both have quality squad but you can't compare the squad of Barcelona to that of Real Madrid in real sense.
The energy posses by Barcelona right now, If Real Madrid has the same opportunity right now, trust me they are going to be unstoppable. Barcelona are very rich in high spirit as it is now, the only thing Real Madrid has as an impression is Mbape making good moves as of recent which nobody knows how long it will last, probably that's the end of the bus but Barcelona is very equip with all different kind of players that are up to any task in any of competition they put their heads.
What kills Barcelona was that losses they had, that time Yamal went to injury and it became impossible for Raphina and Lewandowski to pass through defenders, that made them losses and be confident draw back but since then, their performance has improved and the losses has reduced unless on few occasions they lose to some things due to their mistakes. How far can Real Madrid goes, we will see by the end of the season but Barcelona wouldn't yield until it's over.