Exiting the end via the fountain does not play the portal travel sound unless you are riding something.
This is primarily a regression of MC-101170, which was fixed for all cases except when the credits get played. (At the time you could not ride a boat through the fountain due to [MC-67].) This issue first appeared in 1.21-pre1, only a week after the fix of MC-101170 in 24w20a.
Can confirm.