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Just a quick concern before I deep dive into this and offer additional feedback.

The SRD uses the Twilight 2k approach to stepped dice rather than the Blade Runner one. Which is to say that it's possible to have a skill with no dice at all. This is incompatible with the Advantage/Disadvantage system referenced later (which I personally love from Blade Runner) that talks about adding or removing the lowest base die. If someone is unskilled with the T2K system, they cannot add or remove the lowest die since there is no lowest die per se. The SRD even flat out states that for the A/D system to work, everyone needs a minimum D level in all their skills.

Strongly recommend changing the base step die skill formula to the Blade Runner one where everyone has *at least* a D6 in all their skills. The Advantage/Disadvantage system introduced in Blade Runner is an absolute godsend and will no doubt prove exceedingly popular due to it's elegance and simplicity, so it's critical that the core stepped die system supports it which it currently does not in the SRD (as far as I can tell ... maybe it's possible there's another page later that changes the core skill system that I'm not aware of).

NOT BROKEN? If you are not broken, you heal one point of damage or stress per shift. This assumes that you are not starving, dehydrated, or hypothermic (page 25). You can heal damage and stress at the same time.
Page 21, Conditions, Recovery.

I don't know if it's intentional, but I don't find how damage to attributes work with steped dice. Maybe I'm missing somethin or steped dice are not supposed to take damage.

I think the SRD looks fantastic. I'm currently working on an RPG of my own and this has convinced me I don't need to completely invent my own system and instead use the Year Zero system.

Any chance off adding the radiation/rot mechanic from Mutant Year Zero/Twilight 2000?

It's an excellent way of handling radiation (tracking "temporary" and "permanent" radiation) and since it isn't just in one game but is actually in two Free League titles, it feels like a part of the system rather than game-specific.

In a fantasy setting it would also work great for exposure to dark, corrupting magic, or in a sci-fi setting it could be contamination caused by an alien ecosystem, or something like that.

Could call the mechanic "Exposure" and state it is for coming into contact with radioactive, toxic or biohazardous environments, or places full of some magical corruption, that have a chance of permanently affecting a character's attributes.

The RPG I'm working on is about exploring an anomalous zone full of strange phenomena, inspired by stuff like Roadside Picnic, Stalker, Annihilation etc. I can see myself using an "Exposure" mechanic either to track good old-fashioned radiation (as in Mutant Year Zero/Twilight 2000) or to track general exposure to anomalous phenomena, with players gradually becoming warped and mutated by spending too long in this alien ecosystem.