I have no problem with Leia using the Force to get back to the ship. It doesn’t require mastery of the Force, just a little nudge really, since moving in vacuum and zero-g doesn’t take a lot of force. Probably less Force is required than for pulling out a lightsaber from the snow for an untrained Luke. And being near death is the perfect occassion to manifest every last bit of your abilities - that’s true for every human.
Also, it is possible to survive in vacuum for a minute or so. See here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space-unprotected-possible/. Therefore this scene didn’t bother me at all upon my first viewing, and trust me, there were quite a few scenes that did.
Maybe the scene can be moved to immediately after the explosion to imply that she spends very little time in vacuum and cut out the bit where she is unconcious?
This is how I felt when I saw the scene the first time. I’ve never understood the outrage over this scene. Not to mention we’ve all known Leia had the same power as Luke, she just hadn’t been trained to use it. It seems to me that you don’t have to be trained in using the force to use it. Look at Anakin as a kid, he most definitely used the force pod racing.
I see a lot of people think the scene looks awkward, but I’m not sure how else it should look when a person uses the force to fly through space. Imagine she doesn’t have the force but is holding a powerful magnet, it would look exactly the same way, minus the changes in speed of her flight.
Also, it’s a pretty common trope in movies and tv shows that when a character has a special power that hasn’t been tapped yet, it is generally awakened when that character or a friend or family member to that character is in mortal danger.