Yes, I realized that perhaps I could have chosen a simpler example to explain the same thing. On the other hand, I often find it useful to see code samples that are as close to full, real world examples as possible. So my reason for using the MVP example above is simply because that was pretty close to an actual example I had seen in a real application.

Perhaps you could create a follow up post using a POCO example to illustrate this anti-pattern?

The only reason I probably wouldn’t make it abstract is that there are many times in which it’s perfectly valid for nothing to happen when a view first loads or is initialized. So in these cases, by making it abstract, you’re forcing all presenters to implement a method which sometimes may not be necessary.