If you stand on the top of an obsidian platform (at the cages) the ender dragon will not attempt to fly at you to knock you off. You can actually see it actively swerve from time to time to avoid you.
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I thought it might be an AI thing so that it wont destroy the cage itself, because if it flew through the cage it would delete the blocks.
That's quite odd. I heard somewhere that the Ender Dragon doesn't intentionally hit anything, but I've never heard of it actually avoiding things.
Maybe it's avoiding the obsidian?