In a video I saw RGN say that interdimensional teleportation comes from two things. Heat and hard materials. For nether and end portals it is trivials. But for the exit portal it is harder as there is no obvious heat, just hard material. I think that the heat comes from the end crystals used to summon the dragon (the end crystal literally sets the bedrock on fire). It is clear that the dragon has been beaten time and time again (dragon heads on end ships). It is also clear that the end is colder than the overworld (not how its shown in the video) because chickens that spawn there are cold chickens not hot chickens.
I also think that shulkers are native to the nether (call me wrong all you want). Their shell is purple which is a pretty warm color and its very tough (as hard as diamond). When the shells fosilized it turns into ancient debris (same pattern on the bottom). The ancient builders built the bastions with very short ceilings because they didnt want to levitate too high from the shulkers because they kept duplicating. I think the thingy in the middle of the shulker might be a soul. Eitherthe ancient builders tried killing the shulkersnon a mass scwle or soul sand sucked it out (netherwart in housing bastion) because most of the shukers were dead. They tried fleeing inside netherrack (via teleportation) where they fosilized into ancient debris