It's all about the context of what broke him. Between all the stuff with "The Whills living inside everyone's Midichlorians are essentially manipulating fate across the galaxy" thing in the microbiotic world, the whole "Darth Maul's hot Twi'lek apprentice Talon literally seduced the Kylo Ren equivalent to the dark side" thing, and the talk of Luke having had more support in setting him his new order before things went wrong, it's not like George's version was going to be as much of a hard "Nothing was accomplished at all in the 30 year gap between trilogies" reset as what Disney ended up going with.