This option always seems funny to me. If I didn't trust the AES-NI instruction, why I would I trust the XOR instruction?
On the other hand, trying to backdoor XOR would give you an astronomically higher amount of white noise. Finding important data mixed in with all the other things a computer XORs would be much harder.
If the attacker has access to your computer, you've already lost. If the attacker built your computer, it was never even a fight.