I agree with you that consistency is key for a club in facing the title competition. Real Madrid has shown an impressive revival after a bad start to the season, slowly they can show their best performance, in contrast to Barcelona who seem to have difficulty maintaining the level of play due to injuries to several key players even though the squad owned by Barcelona is not as great as that of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid because Barcelona cannot recruit good players due to financial problems.
That's why I once said that Madrid's poor performance at the beginning of the season will not continue like that because I still believe that Ancelotti will try his best to improve Real Madrid's performance, this club already has the best players in it so it's just a matter of adjusting the conditions and now the Real Madrid squad is starting to find chemistry between them so they can optimize their performance to appear consistently, and for Barcelona it seems like they will also experience a temporary decline if their mainstay players recover maybe it will return Barcelona's performance to the same as at the beginning of the season.
In fact, Real Madrid's performance has been much better at the present time because we know that they were not stronger at the beginning of the season. At one time, when this Real Madrid was very weak in the midfield, they could not easily do well, but now it seems they have been strong there. Moreover, the players of their team's attack share are doing a lot of good performances, so this team is slowly getting much stronger. In terms of the current performance of Real Madrid, we can say that no other party will be able to compete with them very easily. Maybe the other teams are unable to play continuously as Real Madrid are playing consistently in La Liga.