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With carving tools.

Starting from scratch on the backside of the slab is easy, carving into current whitespace is easy and cheap, grinding away the current inscription and carving into the pristine layer below might be a good solution if the stone is thick enough and/or not all of the old inscription needs to be erased.

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You can see the line where the new inscription was put in, above the inscription in the photos.

It look like it was whitespace there, given the height of the letters, but that's a lot of whitespace. I can't find earlier photos of it, though.

Having that much whitespace would make sense if they'd planned to add it later, though it would also be a tell.

So “written in stone” should not be taken so serious anymore.

You, of course, read the description of what it takes to make a change. "Written in stone" can be taken quite seriously. Next time your PM wants to make a feature change, hand 'em a grinder and a chisel, see how badly they want it. Contrast and compare with using meat stubs to hammer out a Jira ticket.

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