What does it matter? Yeah, at the very bottom of it all there will be a loop. I wouldn't attribute that to C but to the von Neumann architecture.

The point is that by getting rid of loops you remove one way of telling the computer "How" to do it. Start here, do it in this order, combine the data this way.

When "How" is a solved problem, it is a waste of your brain to think about that again. "What" is a better use of your brain cycles.