I'm fine with Luke wanting the Jedi to end, and having a bit of an existential crisis about them after his issue with Kylo. It sets up a great fit to the trilogy. 1st Trilogy about hte fall of the Jedi because Anakin felt love and loss and was manipulated by someone who could offer it to him. Second trilogy is Luke's journey to redeming his father and bringing him back to the light, that love was powerful enough to bring him back. Then this trilogy would culminate with the acceptance that the Jedi's views weren't as 'absolute' as they thought, that there was balance within the force itself that each user needed to balance to be as powerful as they could be, etc. Not sure they're going this way, as it is Kylo who wants to find something new and Rey has "the past" hidden in the Falcon.
What bothers me about it is this: Why would Luke go into exile not wanting to be found, but leaving a fragmented map, with the final part hidden in his droid that went into hibernation until a coincidental time that the same person who was being led to his father's light sabre and given a vision, showed up on the planet. And then when she follows the map, with this unique token that implies some connection (whatever that connection might be), he tosses it aside and doesn't seem to have any sort of knowing who she is, or sensing any importance, and is all in all a pretty crappy mentor. Unless he's a Force Ghost for the last one helping her along, she just has the Jedi texts, which means that his whole arc was pretty useless, doesn't it?
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