The answer to all question is YES. 

I wiped out the hard drive and installed the OS from the USP stick which was made with "createinstallmedia" command, the Installer was downloaded on another Mac as normal OS upgrade. I didn't transfer any information from another Mac, but I logged in with my iCloud account.

The whole idea was to do everything clean, without any third party software getting in the way. 

Theoretically, I can get a spare USB3 SSD and repeat this procedure installing a fresh OS on it, it will take me a couple of hours, but will it be helpful? I'm willing to help if VMWare will be listening. First thing - they should improve error reporting, my Installer just hung without saying anything and I had to go through logs trying to figure out what was going on. 

Then, after disabling SIP, installing Fusion and re-enabling SIP, my USB devices didn't show up, I've blamed the HW vendors for a couple of weeks, but it turns out it was SIP.

I do driver development for one of the Apple vendors for many years, so I'm familiar with the kernel and OS.