Saying balanced in terms of strength for now we do not only have to rely on the position in the standings but must also pay attention to the quality of the players because after all when talking about balance only because of the position of course it will not be a matter of sense for me because the position in the standings is influenced by the increase and decrease in performance in the end.
We must be aware that Barcelona are in a mid-season slump right now and that's exactly what happened to Madrid at the start of the season.
But when it comes to balance of course they are balanced because in terms of the quality of players and club rivalries of course they are not too far apart in terms of strength so in this case they can still be said to be balanced.
If the benchmark is only to the current standings, it means that indirectly the beginning of the season Madrid was not balanced from Barcelona because they were in a position not even too decent and vice versa so it will not make sense when saying about balance because the position is always changing.
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 context of saying unbalanced must be clear because you say they are unbalanced but in the end there is no context of the reason in this case their imbalance in terms of what because for now it cannot be denied that the rivalry still exists, the strength of the players even though in terms of value Madrid is superior but they have their own strengths and it is still quite equal where the young players have talent and progress that is not much different so in the end saying unbalanced just because of the position is clearly not a logical reason because in the end the position can sometimes change for now and it depends on the performance.
Maybe when talking about achievements it is understandable but the concept is that we are not talking about the past or trophy achievements but for the current conditions where Madrid is still quite equal to Barcelona.