When I entered the end I spawned on a 1 deep 6x6 obsidian platform 47 blocks away from the end stone land mass. Right over the abyss

Can you provide the seed please.

Lemme check details will be given out tomorrow

This happened to me a few times infact on multiple different seeds I think it might be intentional to keep from getting agro from ED upon spawning and give a person time to rez. I know in 1.3.2 sometimes you would spawn in the end you were getting attacked by ED before you could even move because nothing was rezzed yet. (imho)

Not confirmed. I appeared inside landmass, and other time just outside landpass with small gap.

It's similar with Netherland in "compression". If you make End portal very far away, you will have platform in middle of nowhere.

As a test I made portal at 10000 x 64 x 10000... platform was near landmass.

I'm fairly certain this is intended behaviour.

Going to resolve as working as intended.....random landmasses are random.

I doubt this is intended. How on earth (in survival, not creative) am I supposed to get to the land mass if I have to build an obsidian bridge block-to-edge while a dragon is knocking me off the platform?

It can't be intended.

I also believe it's not intended. It's very difficult for the player to continue playing (attacking the ender dragon) without dying once they encounter the issue.