This all depends on what "the job" being done well enough is. You can't use a research paper to refute the experience of the many programmers who successfully use for loops to get their work done. That's a statement about usability, not expressiveness.

If you want to show something else is easier to use, you'd have to do a user study, and even that's not going to be universally applicable since it depends on the previous experiences of the user population being tested. It's why these things tends to be debated as a matter of taste.