I’m a native speaker and the original phrasing was fine and sounds like completely correct idiomatic English to me. Yes, the syntax is ambiguous, but ambiguous

I’m a native speaker and the original phrasing was fine and sounds like completely correct idiomatic English to me. Yes, the syntax is ambiguous, but ambiguously-parseable sentences happen all the time in all languages and we resolve the ambiguity using context clues, which in this case is easy to do.