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I think BG3 already has the highest rating available, so I don't think it'd be affected.
For substantial changes, the rating would have to be redone, but I don't think many games add content that would effect the ESRB/PEGI system. Also, in many countries, the ratings are optional in the first place; ESRB and PEGI were the result of the games industry coming together to regulate themselves before the government would (because governments would probably ban most games if they didn't).
As far as I'm aware, the legal standard only applies to the age rating, so it would be important that this doesn't change.
The rating boards themselves have contracts with publishers. For PEGI this seems to come down to "re-submit if your changes alter the age rating or damage our ability to do our (legally obligated) job". ESRB has a policy for DLC ("In most cases, the rating assigned to a game also applies to its DLC. However, if the DLC content exceeds the rating assigned to the “core” product, it must be submitted, and a different rating may be assigned to the DLC.").
I think once a game has a certain rating (horror, 16+) and sticks within those boundaries, it should be fine. GTA had an issue with this during the Hot Coffee debacle (in which mods could add some kind of half-finished sex minigame) which caused the age rating to be changed, but that's the only time I remember the age rating ever going up after the fact.
Oblivion also had its initial T rating changed to M after I believe some cave was discovered that was considered too violent. Or it could have been a nude mod. Either way I remember it being kinda controversial of a change.
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Source: ESRB Website
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was briefly changed from M to AO due to content that couldn't even be accessed without mods.
It can go one higher (AO). They wouldn't want it to tho.
Isn't the highest rating AO(adults only)