Is he that different? We really have not much screen time in the films to make that assumption imo. To quote his father (and himself in The Mandalorian) “im just a man making his own way in the galaxy”
What we do know of Boba is what we saw in the prequels (traumatized by seeing his father killed,) vowing revenge upon ObiWan (during the Clone Wars cartoon) and then becoming a bad ass bounty hunter.
Perhaps after being a bounty hunter for so long and seeing where that left him coupled with a near death experience and humbling by the Tuskens could easily change a man. But then, he was still obsessed with getting his armor back and is now trying to take over a crime syndicate.
