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Good news about the bedrock holding the iceberg in place.

As a casual earth science enthusiast, I believe this means that the melt-water will stay proximal, and will encourage accelerated freezing on the coast, somewhat "repairing" the damage.

When it breaks up/drifts away, the coast will be subject to normal freezing patterns from the briny water.

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I think you may have misunderstood - it is the Larsen C shelf that is held in place, not the iceberg that it calved:

An iceberg the size of Delaware is now in motion. If it follows the path of previous icebergs from the Larsen Ice Shelf, it will drift north along the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula before heading northeast into the south Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA.

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