I made bad consciousness posts like a year ago because I was hung up on dualism but I think I get why I was confused so I am here to Atone.
The main source of confusion to me was that if you privilege consciousness like I wanted to, you need to find some way for it to act on the physical world. Otherwise, it's completely disconnected and I should not be able to type or think about it. But I was still very convinced that there had to be something mysterious, because consciousness is so immediately witnessable. The most even.
So I think the problem is how we are accustomed to thinking of things we witness as being very concretely real. If I have an apple, I can see, touch and taste the apple, and I will be very convinced that the apple is real and it is one cohesive apple-natured object. But there are no such thing as apples as far as the universe itself is concerned. What would that even mean? Whatever the universe 'cares' about is probably particles or fields or something like that. On that level, there is no boundary between apple and not apple—that distinction is made by us creatures. I don't think consciousness is really any different. We witness our own internal brain activity, we call it consciousness, and then ascribe that same level of concrete realness as we to do things like apples.
Then we run into problems, because while the apple has no god given boundaries, it's not really that complicated to say, well it's that particular region of space, and be more or less satisfied with that. For consciousness, our brains are far too complicated for this, there's no clean spot to draw the lines, so it's very easy to be convinced that there must be something mysterious happening. But I think now that all this means is we failed to draw the lines we wanted. The universe does not care about our lines, and so this failure does not indicate any deeper mystery.
I still think we should keep trying to figure out where to draw these lines, but there's no correct answer, in about the same way as there is no perfect definition of an apple, or a sandwich, or morality or what have you. I still believe in apples and sandwiches and that morality is important.