That's only if you use nibs, if you don't:

>If the view controller does not have an associated nib file, this method creates a plain UIView object instead.

Don't get me wrong, i love nibs, I use them 99% of the time, but this is a view that I create by code because I generate a dynamic number of elements. It's very crappy code because when I implemented we didn't have `UICollectionView`. But the nib that you have created doesn't do anything, the view is created by code anyway.