Twist of the Myth?

After reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, finally I had a better view of Shaw's Pygmalion. Before starting to read the play, I expected Pygmalion to be one of the character's names, as Antigone in Antigone (and obviously I got that wrong). I love the way Shaw presented his very own version of Pygmalion as "A Romance in Five Acts". Basically both the myth and Shaw's Pygmalion presents the creation of a woman as what a man desires. Higgins is the 'creator' of Eliza as Pygmalion is to Galatea. What is different of the two is that both has different endings. Shaw had given a different way of presenting his own Pygmalion. In the myth, Pygmalion shows his love and how devoted he was to the sculpture he created and when it was brought to life, he married his creation. In Shaw's Pygmalion, Higgins did not show any affection towards Eliza, and their relationship was between a teacher and a student, with less personal feelings involved and this play can be considered as less romantic, as compared to the myth.