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Since Emacs 27.1, if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/ exists and neither ~/.emacs nor ~/.emacs.d/ exist, then it will set user-emacs-directory to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/ instead of ~/.emacs.d/.

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So, if I understand correctly (and this would match my experience), if I compile emacs from sources on a new computer and just run make install, the "legacy" paths will be used instead of the XDG ones, unless I explicitly mkdir $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs.

I would then say emacs supports XDG, but doesn't use it by default, right?

That's correct.

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