Even today, such simple loops with arithmetic progressions include an overwhelming majority of all "for" loops.
The C syntax made writing these simple "for" loops more difficult, by having to write a lot of redundant symbols, instead of writing the minimum number of separators. Also for reading, the redundant symbols obscure the meaningful text.
The C syntax allows the writing of "for" loops where the values of the control variables are not taken from a progression, but they are for instance the values of the links of a linked list.
This kind of "for" loops can be written in a simple way by using iterators, without complicating the syntax of the loops with simple arithmetic progressions.
In modern C++ there is no longer any case when you would want to use the C kind of "for", but the kinds of loops used by languages like C++ already existed in languages introduced at about the same time with C, e.g. Alphard and Clu.
That is, the commenter was not asserting the supremacy of "from 0 to N" as a for-loop construct, but rather asserting the supremacy of iterators, and pointing out how poor the C-style syntax is even compared to its less-generalised cousins.