I don't think Pat Rothfuss is a copy of a copy. I think he took some tropes expressed in Erikson, Martin, and Jordan's work, and made them his own. Bear in mind: I've been on a convention panel with Pat, exchanged emails with him, and his blog is one of my weekly must-reads. But I probably won't read his second or third book.
I liked much of the world building and backstory in The Name of the Wind. There's a single ironic pun so delicious it would be at home in a Discworld novel. Pat attempted and largely succeeded at an incredibly difficult format and POV exchange between real-time and recounted events.
But Kvothe was too perfect. With every exploit, my inner critic kept muttering 'Gary Stu'. His mysterious crimes and subsequent self-exile as an inn owner became more annoying the more Rothfuss circled around them. The female characters were mostly cardboard, and I spent the entire novel trying to figure out if they had hidden depth I wasn't noticing. I found numerous areas of padded plot. Places where continuity and solid world building failed (the 'dragon' in the forest felt like a D&D encounter dropped in without regard to how the creature would impact its environment.) And no, 'It's just fantasy' is not an excuse: things have to work within a story's internal logic. Pat is a better writer than that.
In the end, even though the writing was largely excellent and the looming danger satisfyingly epic, I couldn't stay interested in poor Kvothe long enough to care about his story. Scott Lynch, first published around the same time, had far stronger characters in The Lies of Locke Lamora and its sequel. Rothfuss came to the table with some strong skills, but he also got lucky: he won Writers of the Future with an excerpt of Name, got some agent notice, and found a juggernaut publisher to back him up. He also skillfully marketed himself and his brand across social media and in-person appearances at conventions.
I don't mind publisher hype when it serves a genuinely great product. But the more a novel is hyped these days, the more cautious I am about it.
To get back to the earlier question, I do think that Orullian's novel feels like a clunkier copy of Jordan's work, just as I thought Terry Brook's first Shannara novel was a dreadful rehash of LoTR. Brooks grew as a writer. I hope Orullian does, too.