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Any of the "salads": Tuna salad, chicken salad, egg salad, potato salad benefit from a little added celery, both as an added flavor component as well as for a little texture and crunch.
While I use celery in a lot of cooking, I tend not to be able to use an entire bunch of it before it goes bad. So, whenever I buy it, I use what I can, and then I chop the rest up and freeze it. Then I can pull out what I need for cooking purposes at my leisure, and I don't end up wasting much celery.
All the options you mentioned for eating the celery raw are great. I'd also add cream cheese to that list.
If you don't like celery uncooked, this is a great way to ruin a salad. It sounds like that probably doesn't apply to OP, though.
What is the celery like after unfreezing?
Tastes just the same.
It loses some of its crispness, so you wouldn't necessarily substitute frozen / thawed celery in a recipe that calls for raw / uncooked celery. Though, I have used the thawed stuff for things like potato salad and chicken salad before, which are things that typically use raw celery, and it still added enough texture and crunch to make it worthwhile.
But for things that involve cooking celery, like in soups, stir fries, and things along those lines, frozen works just fine for me. I don't find any difference in taste or texture in the finished product, assuming that the frozen celery didn't get freezer burned or go through multiple freeze/thaw cycles.
Most grocery stores in my part of the world sell frozen celery or at least frozen veggie mixes that include celery, so I'd say it's a fairly common practice.
Thanks!