"Fine" as in the syntax of English allows both. "Like that" in that yes, human language is incessantly, pervasively ambiguous. Most utterances are technically a

"Fine" as in the syntax of English allows both. "Like that" in that yes, human language is incessantly, pervasively ambiguous. Most utterances are technically ambiguous. In this case your suggestion certainly is clearer than the original, but the original isn't wrong, and HN isn't a law court or a writing circle and you're not our sub-editor, so if you didn't understand something or want to clarify something for other readers, go ahead and do that graciously, rather than "correcting" with a brusque "fixed that for you".