This is kind of hard to pin down as I suspect that both the green coffee and the roast contribute. So, some food for thought:

First, I think that a coffee that deteriorates taste-wise relatively quickly when stored in room temperature conditions will do the same in colder conditions. Also, I suspect moisture and water activity play a role, but I've never measured these.

With my own roasts:
- I have never noticed this with roasts taken beyond the end of first crack; only in roasts where I drop during first crack;
- my sample roasts have never lasted very long. I have tried freezing sample roasts only a couple times and gave up. I use an iRoast2 for sample roasting so the roasting technology could be a factor as well;
- the naturals where I've noticed this have all been pretty rustic; the kind of coffee that you want to screen for sand and pebbles, and run a magnet through.

With purchased roasts:
- again, I've only noticed this with a few light-roasted coffees; never anything light-medium or more developed;
- it has never happened to me when the light-roasted beans have been rock-hard - if you have a hand grinder then you'll know what I'm talking about. (I'm not referring to white coffee. White roasts break grinders.)
- I buy novel processes (e.g., anaerobic, carbonic maceration) one or two times a year. When I do, I always try to get the coffee in sets offering the same green processed in multiple ways, e.g, washed, natural, and anaerobic. These sets are invariably light-roasted. They're also invariably expensive, so there is a strong desire to freeze to stretch the coffee out. So far, freezing has never worked out; the frozen novel processes lose complexity, lose 'wow' on the tongue, become flat. I'm not saying that is always the case; but I have stopped freezing these types of coffees, and change brew method instead. I'll cup the coffees first - at the cost of some of these sets, I better be able to taste a difference blinded! - then pourover, then espresso, and, at the end of the bags, Turkish.

I'm curious to hear about other's experiences. I'd sure like to be able to preserve all coffees for longer.