End gateways don't teleport players to closest location

Over the past few days I've been building an end ring around the end gateways because well, I just think it looks cool, but have realized end gateways don't teleport players to closest safe location but instead on the main end island itself. Even with me removing the end stone in a creative copy of my world using a command block and a 11 x 11 platform of safe blocks to teleport on to it will still shift my teleport point to the end island