It is worse than that. A significant chunk of programmers decided that for loops are evil, even for loops with a 3 lines body, and that imperative programming

It is worse than that. A significant chunk of programmers decided that for loops are evil, even for loops with a 3 lines body, and that imperative programming languages should in general become functional, because their imperative nature is actually evil. And I also even broadly agree in theory, but in practice there are consequences, especially in languages that were not designed with a strong focus for that to begin with; or even just with a mismatching culture of most programmers using that language, etc. So why don't people just use a functional programming language if they think that is a panacea? In most case this will yield a far better functional programming experience... Also, we are going nowhere if we base all our practice on random soft opinion pieces. We should not blindly believe claims like "An explicit for loop is another common source of bugs" without serious evidences.