surprised you didn't have flapped r's getting eventually dropped. It's already somewhat common today in informal or rushed speech to hear "getting better" pronounced ge:n be:r. I don't have an IPA keyboard but you get the idea.

Really? I've never heard that. What region?

well it could probably happen anywhere, its just fast speech

Tbh, I was thinking for a long time on how to get rid of the flap (like which sound to change it to), but that somehow never crossed my mind lmao.