In what way does it look "less clear"?
The problem with showing more details on the low-dpi screen for a 16x16 icon was the low resolution of the screen.
A hi-dpi screen doesn't have this issue. It's effectively showing 32x32 quality on the 16x16 "virtual pixel" size.
At worse, it would have looked as good as a 32x32 icon in a low-dpi screen. But in the hi-dpi it looks even better, much sharper and refined. You're getting an icon that's as good as a 32x32 icon would be on a low-dpi screen, but with half the physical size, so that it appears twice-as-detailed as a 16x16 icon would be.
And if the icon looks ok in 32x32 on a low-dpi screen, it will look doubly so as a 16x16 virtual pixels with doubled resolution underneath in a high-dpi one.
A bunch of details really close together looks like noise, not information