What is your point? Is it that consciousness is a difficult topic, or that people are stupid? Or, that there is a conspicuous amount of effort made on a question that never gets answered? I think the latter and somewhat of the former, and I think you are correct. It does seem unreasonable that we never get answers to questions we ask over and over again. The word "obscurantists" says it all, however, maybe a better word for them is "liars". You see people as individuals; I see them as a confluence of a contiguous agent. A lying agent. More like a paint brush, rather than the artist. Of course, I have lived, and draw upon vast amounts of personal experience. I'll tell you this, even human stupidity is a fake.