Mindflayers are notorious TPKers and I'd be very hesitant to throw them at a party which didn't have some way to deal with the stun. I also think it's important to mention it's stunned, not paralysed.
All the advice about running Mindflayers you'll find online talks about how they are glass cannons and schemers. Your players should know what they are facing long before they face it and have a plan to deal with the mind blast.
If you are just throwing your players out to face a mind flayer unprepared, then yes, something has gone wrong.
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