Cycling And Confused

The water will clear. A bacterial bloom is caused by bacteria that live in the water column and feed on organic matter. They multiply very quickly, and we can see them as the cloudiness. Once they have consumed all their food, they die and the water clears. These are not the bacteria we want to grow in the filter.
New tanks contain lots of plastic things and plastic things contain plasticiser, an organic chemical that feeds the bloom bacteria. Uneaten food is organic as well.

Your readings are typical for a fish-in cycle. The fish are making ammonia but there are no ammonia eaters yet to remove it so you are having to do it. There is no nitrite because there aren't any (or only a tiny number) of ammonia eaters to make it. The nitrate reading is constant because there will be sme in your tap water, and there is no nitrite or nitrite eaters to make more nitrate.
It does take a while to get the bacteria started. The source is your water supply and some water companies are better at killing bacteria than others.
You could try getting some Tetra Safe Start. That is a bottled bacteria that does seem to work provided it has been stored correctly since manufacture.

One thing in your favour - the filter bacteria do grow faster at higher pH.