What is the general academic picture on the historicity of Moses? Not necessarily the Exodus, mind you (although I'd like to hear about that as well), but Moses specifically.
I can recommend this answer by u/Antiquarianism for you
This article by Dr Joseph Weinstein presents the argument that the events in Exodus could have occurred in the 16th century BCE, when Lower Egypt was ruled by a foreign Hyksos dynasty at their capital in Avaris, whereas the native Egyptian dynasty had relocated to Upper Egypt and consolidated a capital at Thebes.
To summarize the article:
After the disintegration of the Middle Kingdom in the 17th century BCE, a Semitic-speaking Hyksos dynasty rose to prominence to become the ruling dynasty of Lower Egypt, whereas native Egyptian political power shifted to Upper Egypt, forming the 18th dynasty which comepted against the Hyksos.
The Hyksos rulers were infamous for levying what was effectively corveƩ labour on the population of Lower Egypt to work on construction projects. At that point in time, Lower Egypt was primarily inhabited by other Semitic-speaking peoples.
There is some evidence that Lower Egypt suffered natural disasters and plagues in the 16th century BCE, so that the power of the Hyksos dynasty faltered enough to become challenged by the Egyptians of the 18th dynasty, whose rebellion under the leadership of pharoah Ahmose I led to a 'reconquest' of Lower Egypt by native Egyptians and culminating in the expulsion of the Hyksos.
The ruins of Hyksos-era temples and tombs suggests that that they were ransacked by their southern conquerors, and the scant artifacts of Hyksos society may have been an intended consequence of Ahmose's reconquest so that native Egyptian culture would become the dominant culture again. This displacement of the Hyksos may also explain the lack of Egyptian records to support the Exodus narrative, because the Egyptians themselves had not been in Lower Egypt at the particular time of those events in the 16th century BCE. If, during the reign of the Hyksos, there had been a revolt by the predominantly Semitic population against the policy of forced labour for construction projects, and a coinciding spate of disasters and plagues, then the more extensive records of these events would have been part of the Hyksos culture which was ultimately displaced by the conquering Egyptians, who in turn would have little records of those events.
This could also explain why the Torah's narrative of a defeated Pharoah conflicts with the contemporary Egyptian narrative of a victorious Pharoah - the Hebrews escaped their tyrannical Hyksos pharoah - possibly named Apophis - whom the Egyptians contemporaneously defeated under the leadership of their own native Egyptian pharoah - Ahmose I.
If the Exodus events occurred during the reign of the Hyksos, then the displacement of the Semitic Hyksos culture by the reconquering Egyptians would explain why there are few Egyptian records to support the Exodus narrative in any manner consistent to the chronology the Torah - the Egyptians simply hadn't been there at the time, and then destroyed the records of those who had been keeping records upon conquering the Hyksos.
But a record of this history could have been preserved among the Semitic refugees who had already been fleeing the collapsing Hyksos tyrannic dynasty by the time the native Egyptians reconquered Lower Egypt - hence the story of Exodus being preserved in the Torah by the descendents of these Semitic refugees - i.e. the Hebrews. [1]
REFERENCE:
[1] Joseph Weinstein, "We Were Slaves to the Hyksos in Egypt" TheTorah.com (2021).
https://www.thetorah.com/article/we-were-slaves-to-the-hyksos-in-egypt