Abrams and Kasdan have referred to Kylo as being a bad-guy parallel to Luke, or rather a reversal of his story-arc.
So I think the similarities are definitely intentional.
There is a line from Leia in the film when she’s speaking to Han, something like “there’s still good in him, we can bring him home.”
I don’t know if it was on this forum or somewhere else, but another user had a great response to that line. “Bring him home for what? To face war crimes trials, and pay for murdering an entire village of innocents? Punish him for murdering Han and untold numbers of other people? Bring him home to try and convict him and put him in jail and execute him by lethal injection?”
Count me out if this new trilogy is going to focus on some redemption plot for a mass murderer. Nobody wants to see that shit.