Mapbox does support retina tiles by adding a @2x in the URL, for both v3 and v4 APIs. This has to be detected and enabled via JavaScript.
Leaflet already has built-in support to detect retina in the browser. E.g. (L.Browser.retina ? '@2x' : '')
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