Golem not pathfinding to nearest chest

If you setup a pod similar to the one in the screenshot, if the golem is standing on top of the copper chest to the right when it takes an item out, the golem will pathfind all the way to the transfer chest on the left, skipping all the other chests. I think this happens because the golem is checking for nearest chest in terms of direct block distance, rather than pathfinding block distance.

The expected result is the golem will check the chest that is nearest to it via its available path to walk.