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Congress did not repeal the Natural Born language in Article II, Section 1. What they did in 1790 was attempt to *add* to the original meaning of "natural born", specifically those born of two citizen parents but outside the US. Then 5 years latter, they repealed that law, the correpsonding section of which dropped the "natural born" part and just left "citizens".

This clearly indicated a difference between citizen at birth and natural born citizen, and probably indicated that (1) the original understanding of the term did not include such persons (except perhaps those born while the father was serving in "the armies" but outside the country) , and (2) they then realized they couldn't modify the original meaning without a full Constitutional amendment.