I own a couple books on Make and it's a great tool, but I learned how to use Mk by just reading the manpage. It's a huge improvement and simplification at the same time.
There's a solid, stand-alone implementation of mk in golang. No plan9 environment needed.
It's a common misconception to read too much into Renderers. Salt's State system takes a data structure as input so each of the Renderer modules is really just what flavor of "data structure generator" you like most.
The so-called highstate data structure is very stable and well documented so Renders rarely need changes:
The regular Python interface you mentioned is my favorite too, when YAML/Jinja aren't a good fit, and people do use it. It's 40 LOC and has only needed 32 commits in the six years it's been around:
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There's a solid, stand-alone implementation of mk in golang. No plan9 environment needed.
https://github.com/henesy/mk