I had an experiment using two accounts both with baritone installed. I dug a few tunnels in the nether leading up to a final goal. With two players starting at the exact same spot, I typed .goto (goal coords). However, the path taken by the two AI's are different, so I was just wondering if the final goal coords is the same across the two bots, shouldn't they be able to reach the goal using the same path?

Baritone depends on a lot of factors to be as efficient as possible. It's rare to start it in the same spot and take the same path

It doesn't avoid players by default. It depends on if you have blocks in your inventory / tools / if you can sprint and have hunger